How rare is the name Linnea?

7,792 people in the United States have the first name Linnea, about 1 in 38,762. It ranks #2,919 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LINNEA

#2,919

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,792
About
1 in 38,762
This common or more
81.2%
Who bears it

Of the 7,792 people named Linnea, 85.7% reported their origin as White, 4.7% as two or more races and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Linnea peaked in 2015, when 177 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18942025
Peak year
2015
Births that year
177
In 2025*
149 ▼16%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,944 babies have been given the name since 1894. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Linnea by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #1,558. The largest share of babies named Linnea, 21.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1890s#3,26612
1900s#1,771116
1910s#1,885360
1920s#3,508198
1930s#2,825232
1940s#1,558822
1950s#1,684990
1960s#2,182682
1970s#2,391700
1980s#2,268937
1990s#2,3901,199
2000s#2,6821,358
2010s#2,6741,512
2020s#2,845826
Before 19010.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–276.4%
Silent Generation 1928–456.8%
Baby boom 1946–6417.9%
Generation X 1965–8010.9%
Millennials 1981–9617%
Generation Z 1997–1221.6%
2013 and later19.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Linnea is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Linnea has been most common in Minnesota (9.1×), Washington (5.5×), and Illinois (3.4×), and least common in Ohio (0.14×).

5,490 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Linnea

#2,917 Deacon · 7,805#2,918 Maxim · 7,803#2,920 Iman · 7,791#2,921 Oleg · 7,785

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Linnea, most common first.

#13,280 Linna · 914#28,083 Linea · 322#32,025 Linnaea · 265#40,852 Linne · 181

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