Herlinda
Herlinda was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,624 among girls’ names; 4,410 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,800 Americans named Herlinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 43 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Herlinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Herlinda?
#7,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Herlinda rose from #10,403 in 2015 to #7,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 8.7 per million.
128 babies in 1952, the peak
Herlinda peaked in 1952, when 128 girls were given it, #800 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,624 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,132 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,215 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,690 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,586 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,471 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,798 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,470 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,235 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,153 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,403 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,182 | 6.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,676 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,933 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,723 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,230 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,871 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,192 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,264 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,047 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,058 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,281 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,531 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,902 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,009 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,963 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,482 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,562 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,352 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,206 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,285 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,520 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,000 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,102 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,381 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,157 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,621 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,354 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,079 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,720 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,645 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,608 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,451 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,013 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,451 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,816 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,813 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,934 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,622 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,532 | 21.3 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,941 | 30.0 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,279 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,415 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,504 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,991 | 24.0 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,673 | 30.8 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,863 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,601 | 30.3 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,678 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,552 | 29.5 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,505 | 30.1 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,529 | 28.0 |
| 1962 | 64 | #1,387 | 32.5 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,332 | 34.7 |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,378 | 31.7 |
| 1959 | 81 | #1,184 | 40.0 |
| 1958 | 81 | #1,180 | 40.3 |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,295 | 32.8 |
| 1956 | 71 | #1,237 | 35.4 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,012 | 50.1 |
| 1954 | 87 | #1,054 | 44.8 |
| 1953 | 125 | #827 | 66.4 |
| 1952 | 128 | #800 | 69.0 |
| 1951 | 91 | #979 | 50.5 |
| 1950 | 103 | #873 | 60.1 |
| 1949 | 97 | #897 | 56.7 |
| 1948 | 83 | #957 | 48.9 |
| 1947 | 95 | #910 | 53.6 |
| 1946 | 77 | #947 | 49.0 |
| 1945 | 56 | #1,040 | 42.8 |
| 1944 | 75 | #883 | 56.5 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,160 | 35.1 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,106 | 37.8 |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,108 | 37.2 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,178 | 34.1 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,231 | 32.8 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,422 | 25.4 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,150 | 36.7 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,172 | 35.6 |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,088 | 39.1 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,110 | 39.3 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,272 | 31.7 |
| 1932 | 50 | #999 | 46.9 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,207 | 33.8 |
| 1930 | 56 | #986 | 49.7 |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,020 | 45.7 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,167 | 37.3 |
| 1927 | 56 | #1,027 | 47.0 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,339 | 29.5 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,237 | 32.9 |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,175 | 36.0 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,119 | 39.0 |
| 1922 | 52 | #1,049 | 43.3 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,245 | 31.6 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,262 | 30.9 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,167 | 36.3 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,367 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,356 | 27.7 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,461 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,271 | 31.5 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,510 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,492 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,770 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,588 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,688 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,663 | 23.0 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,256 | 15.0 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,788 | 20.6 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,789 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,821 | 20.0 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,589 | 23.2 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,699 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,098 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,229 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,348 | 28.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Herlinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Herlinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 125 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Herlinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Herlinda, and how old are they?
2,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 4,410 Americans ever recorded as Herlinda. The median Herlinda alive today is 63 years old; half are between 43 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 6,835 people named Herlinda (6,822 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,036 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 249 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 561 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 395 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 245 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
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).
Where are babies named Herlinda born?
The states with the most babies named Herlinda are Texas, California and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,607 | not ranked | 9.3× |
| California | 798 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Arizona | 48 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| New Mexico | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Herlinda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Herlinda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 9.3 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 Herlinda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Herlinda
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 Herlinda and names like it
- Compare Herlinda and LornaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sHerlinda peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Herlinda since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Herlinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Herlinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.