Linea

Girls' name

Variant of Linnéa

Linea has been given to 165 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Linea, 2011

1 in 732,000

Linea over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Linnéa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linea means

Linea is a variant of Linnéa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Linea is used in Norwegian and Danish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Linea → Linnéa → Linnea. The family’s meaning is “linden tree”, recorded in Swedish with the source elements Lind.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linnéa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 165 girls were recorded with the name Linea between 1911 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,686 in 1911.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Linea?

Linea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,099 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Linea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lineas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linea was born before 1976 — so the typical Linea is around 49 today.

Median birth year: 1976; About 49 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 35.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 134; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Linea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1970 (12)
Years since peak: 55; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,686; 1911

Spellings of Linea

Linea is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 35.7% against Linea's <0.01%.

Linda35.7%1,455,143
Lisa23.8%967,229
Tina7.2%292,146
Gina3.8%153,057
Lena3.6%146,479
Nina3.3%133,788
Luna2.2%87,715
Lynda1.9%77,979

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Linea around the world

Where Linea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
2003–2022
#6,613
in 2022
Norway
1880–2025
#315
in 2025
South Australia
1952–1952
#460
in 1952

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Linea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,686; 1911
Peak year: 1970; 12 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 165
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Linea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Lincy Linah Linsy Linlee Linnea Linkyn Nanea Lindee Lindie Linzy Linnaea Lindi Lineth Linsi Linen Linet Lindyn Atenea Ling Linnet Linday Lindzy Linde Lindey

Sibling names for Linea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Nicolle Janeen Corinna Marlo Shonda Jeana Jeanna Trena

For a brother

Judd Douglass Alfonzo Edwardo Shon Brant Scot Darrick

Explore around Linea

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