Arlinda
Arlinda was last recorded in 2013, when 8 babies were given it; 1,493 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Arlinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 47 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,124, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1949, the peak
Arlinda peaked in 1949, when 72 girls were given it, #1,055 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,124 | 4.6 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,406 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,607 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,898 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,085 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,542 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,738 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,776 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,507 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,274 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #11,239 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,881 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,198 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,281 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,652 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,068 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,327 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,190 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,488 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,568 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,303 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,083 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,980 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,994 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,928 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,748 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,223 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,755 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,990 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,672 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,929 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,382 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,549 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,744 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,294 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,175 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,893 | 28.9 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,112 | 23.4 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,637 | 32.6 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,900 | 25.5 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,650 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,382 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,749 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,605 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,383 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,344 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,541 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,548 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,515 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,196 | 13.3 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,209 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,564 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,970 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,803 | 17.4 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,678 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,472 | 23.4 |
| 1952 | 61 | #1,217 | 32.9 |
| 1951 | 67 | #1,142 | 37.2 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,303 | 28.6 |
| 1949 | 72 | #1,055 | 42.1 |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,157 | 35.3 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,376 | 25.4 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,396 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,048 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,871 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,142 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,792 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arlinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlinda, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,493 Americans ever recorded as Arlinda. The median Arlinda alive today is 57 years old; half are between 47 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 1,481 people named Arlinda (1,473 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 517 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 435 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 194 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 98 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,585 babies since 1880, Arlinda is the most given (94% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arlinda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arlinda and names like it
- Compare Arlinda and ArlandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sArlinda peaked in 1949.
- Arizona’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlinda since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Arlinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arlinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.