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Linna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Linna has been given to 876 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1950, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Linna, 2024

1 in 304,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linna means

Linna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Linna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 876 girls were recorded with the name Linna between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1950; its best national rank was #874 in 1883.

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 Linna?

Linna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 304,000
11 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 147,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
210,642 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linna 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 2024 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 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linna was born before 1958 — so the typical Linna is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
11.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
514
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 11.5% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Linna 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1950 (20)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#874
1883

Spellings of Linna

Linna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 19.8% against Linna's 0.01%.

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 Linna is used

Across 1910–2025, Linna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 667,199 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Linna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linna around the world

Where Linna 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
    1921–2025
    #4,422
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1981–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Linna 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
#874
1883
Peak year
1950
20 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
876
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linna

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

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Sibling names for Linna

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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