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Valinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Valinda has been given to 1,363 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1954, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Valinda, 1997

1 in 725,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valinda means

Valinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Valinda is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,363 girls were recorded with the name Valinda between 1942 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 136 in 1954; its best national rank was #808 in 1954.

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 Valinda?

Valinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valinda 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valinda was born before 1959 — so the typical Valinda is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,224
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (557).

Is Valinda 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 1954 (136)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#808
1954

Spellings of Valinda

Valinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 81.0% against Valinda's 0.08%.

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 Valinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Valinda was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 272,340 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Valinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valinda 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
#808
1954
Peak year
1954
136 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
1,363
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Valinda

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

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Sibling names for Valinda

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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