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Linette

#14,211 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Linette has been given to 4,285 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #14,211 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Linette, 2025

1 in 553,000

Linette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linette: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Welsh

What Linette means

Linette has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Linette

A separate documented entry treats Linette as a variant of Lynette. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Linette as a diminutive of Line. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

In modern use a spelling variant of Lynette, though it is also identical with a rare French name, diminutive of Line, from Caroline, Pauline and other female names ending in -line.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Linette (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Linette is used in English, Danish and Norwegian. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lynette and Line.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,285 girls were recorded with the name Linette between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 1970; its best national rank was #863 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,787 in 2020 to #14,211 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,560 in 2015 to #14,211 in 2025.

How common is Linette?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,211
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linette 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linette was born before 1971 — so the typical Linette is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,115
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Choose a decade

1960s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (1,077).

Is Linette 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
−3,467
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,424
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,651
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1970 (156)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#863
1970

Spellings of Linette

Linette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 45.8% against Linette's 1.2%.

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.

Where Linette is used

Across 1910–2025, Linette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 60,563 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 50,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Linette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linette around the world

Where Linette 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1912–2024
    #5,609
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Linette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Linette. Linked forms have their own page here.

LunetteLynetteLinnette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Linette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,211
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,424
Best rank ever
#863
1970
Peak year
1970
156 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,285
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Linette

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

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Names with a curve like Linette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Linette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MartiReneaJodeeDoriJolynnShaunLissaJuleeKimberlieCarinRisaLiane

Sibling names for Linette

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

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