Belynda
Belynda was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 766 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Belynda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Belynda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,953, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1964, the peak
Belynda peaked in 1964, when 39 girls were given it, #1,892 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #16,953 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,529 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,774 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,418 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,862 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,378 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,957 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,937 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,340 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,660 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 9 | #8,559 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,576 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,168 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,862 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,471 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,348 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,123 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,935 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,597 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,750 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,123 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,270 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,490 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,377 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,542 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,038 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,760 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,604 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,744 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,397 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,108 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,465 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,217 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,947 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,471 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,892 | 20.6 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,064 | 17.1 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,115 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,550 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,104 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,294 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,326 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,156 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,930 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,845 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,501 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,618 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,573 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,946 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,243 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,199 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Belynda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Belynda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Belynda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Belynda, and how old are they?
An estimated 685 Americans named Belynda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 47 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 701 people named Belynda (701 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 709 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Belynda?
Belynda is a less common spelling of Belinda: SSA has recorded 766 Belynda and 73,110 Belinda since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 75,018 babies since 1880, Belynda is the third most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 110 babies recorded by SSA was a Belynda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Belynda
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 Belynda and names like it
- Compare Belynda and BelindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBelynda peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Belynda since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Belynda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Belynda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.