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Linnea

#1,449 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Linnéa

Linnea has been given to 9,944 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #1,449 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 177 recorded.

Babies named Linnea, 2025

1 in 22,200

Linnea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linnea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Linnéa

Latin and Swedish

What Linnea means

Linnea is a variant of Linnéa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Linnea is used in English, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Latin and Swedish.

Linnea is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linnéa and Lind.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Linnea is pronounced /ˈlinːeɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,944 girls were recorded with the name Linnea between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 177 in 2015; its best national rank was #745 in 1945.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,651 in 2020 to #1,449 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,346 in 2015 to #1,449 in 2025.

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 Linnea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,200
149 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,449
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,423 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linnea 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,423 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linnea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linneas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linnea was born before 1989 — so the typical Linnea is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
15.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,204
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (1,512).

Is Linnea 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
+157
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+202
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−103
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.2%
Peak was 2015 (177)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#745
1945

Spellings of Linnea

Linnea is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 89.7% against Linnea's 0.61%.

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 Linnea is used

Across 2016–2025, Linnea was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,818 girls, against 1 in 11,837 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

155 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,818
  2. 2Washington1 in 3,226
  3. 3Oregon1 in 4,167
  4. 4Montana1 in 4,545
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 4,762
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 5,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 7,143
  8. 8Colorado1 in 7,692

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.

Linnea around the world

Where Linnea 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
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • France
    1994–2025
    #6,868
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #31
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Notable people named Linnea

People whose public names include Linnea, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Linnea in other languages

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

NeaLineaLinnaLinneLyneaLinnaeLynneaLiniaLínia

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

Linnea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,449
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 202
Best rank ever
#745
1945
Peak year
2015
177 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,944
Count in 2025
149

Names similar to Linnea

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

LinnieLinseyLindyLinetteLindenLinleyLinaLincolnLineaLindsyReneaLindiLynneaLindleyLinzyLindieLindeeLindsayLinhLindseyJaneaLindsiLinsayLinlee

Names with a curve like Linnea

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

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Sibling names for Linnea

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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