Deolinda
Deolinda was last recorded in 1971, when 5 babies were given it; 243 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deolinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deolinda mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Deolinda is “a female given name”
/de.oˈlĩ.dɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deolinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,644, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1923, the peak
Deolinda peaked in 1923, when 20 girls were given it, #1,959 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | #8,644 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,284 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,607 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,420 | 2.9 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,554 | 4.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,562 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,563 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,742 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,459 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,501 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 9 | #3,345 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,432 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,211 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,431 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,959 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,206 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,406 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,620 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,001 | 15.9 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,126 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,419 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,036 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,953 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,283 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,710 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deolinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deolinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deolinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deolinda, and how old are they?
An estimated 23 Americans named Deolinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 482 people named Deolinda (482 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 38 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12.7 times 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.
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).
Where are babies named Deolinda born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 147 | not ranked | 16.9× |
Where Deolinda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deolinda is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1912 it was given 16.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Deolinda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,905 babies since 1880, Deolinda is the third most given (8.4% 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 Deolinda
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 Deolinda and names like it
- Compare Deolinda and DelindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDeolinda peaked in 1923.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deolinda since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Deolinda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Deolinda.
- Names starting with DMost given first.