How rare is the name Lynda?

64,728 people in the United States have the first name Lynda, about 1 in 4,666. It ranks #770 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LYNDA

#770

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
64,728
About
1 in 4,666
This common or more
66.1%
Who bears it

Of the 64,728 people named Lynda, 84.6% reported their origin as White, 6.5% as Black and 4.3% 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.

Lynda peaked in 1947, when 4,850 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18822025
Peak year
1947
Births that year
4,850
In 2025*
30 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 78,098 babies have been given the name since 1882. 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.

Lynda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #213. The largest share of babies named Lynda, 61.6%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#2,41716
1890s#2,38739
1900s#2,85242
1910s#3,234148
1920s#2,768282
1930s#8082,195
1940s#21328,010
1950s#29822,731
1960s#39215,705
1970s#8304,357
1980s#1,3232,293
1990s#2,5891,058
2000s#4,364683
2010s#6,552400
2020s#9,353139
Before 19010.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4518.5%
Baby boom 1946–6461.6%
Generation X 1965–8013.9%
Millennials 1981–963.6%
Generation Z 1997–121.4%
2013 and later0.5%

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 Lynda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lynda has been most common in District of Columbia (1.6×), Idaho (1.5×), and Oklahoma (1.5×), and least common in Nevada (0.36×).

74,401 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 Lynda

#768 Jace · 64,943#769 Scarlett · 64,822#771 Gene · 64,474#772 Bertha · 64,455

Spelled almost the same

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

#8,810 Lyndi · 1,623#13,144 Lyndia · 927#17,668 Lynnda · 619#20,132 Lynde · 516#23,638 Lyndy · 413

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