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Linnette

Girls' name

Variant of Lynette

Linnette has been given to 1,144 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 1971, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Linnette, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linnette: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lynette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linnette means

Linnette is a variant of Lynette.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Linnette is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /lɪ.ˈnɛt/ for Linnette.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lynette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,144 girls were recorded with the name Linnette between 1930 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,992 in 1967.

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.

How common is Linnette?

Linnette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linnette 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linnette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linnettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linnette was born before 1970 — so the typical Linnette is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,062
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Linnette 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (36)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,992
1967

Spellings of Linnette

Linnette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 57.7% against Linnette's 0.39%.

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 Linnette is used

Across 1910–2025, Linnette was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 325,876 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 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. Linnette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linnette around the world

Where Linnette 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.

  • South Australia
    1948–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Linnette 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
#1,992
1967
Peak year
1971
36 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,144
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linnette

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

LinetteLindleyLincolnElliotteOlivetteEllietteAmoretteLinleySharlotteLindenElietteEveretteLindsieRosetteLindiCozetteNinetteLinnaeaLinzyStarletteLindaleeLindieLindeeDonnette

Sibling names for Linnette

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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