Dalinda — girls' name
388 babies named Dalinda in U.S. Social Security records since 1947, with the highest year being 1964. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Dalinda was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Dalinda in 1964 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dalinda
The Social Security Administration has registered 388 babies named Dalinda between 1947 and 2015, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dalinda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dalinda performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 123 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Dalinda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dalinda in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dalinda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 388 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dalinda at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dalinda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1947
- Peak year (1964)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 69 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
388 total births across 69 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1964 with 17 births in a single year.
Dalinda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 123 births that decade — 32% of Dalinda's all-time total
Dalinda decade highlights
- Peak decade 123 births
- Runner-up 97 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Dalinda's strongest decade
123 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Dalinda by state
Where Dalinda concentrates geographically — total births since 1947
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 82 | 21.1% |
82 of 388 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 21.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 21.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1947–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.