Girls' name · since 1968
Kelinda
23 babies named Kelinda in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 23
- total births
- 1968–1981
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 48%
- born in that decade
Kelinda sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 23 recorded since 1968.
Kelinda has 23 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 1981.
- 23 total births
- 1968–1981 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 48% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kelinda's 23 recorded births place it above 39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kelinda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kelinda splits its recorded history at 1979: 43% of all births land in the more recent half, 57% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1979 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1968 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kelinda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1981
- Peak year (1968)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Kelinda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kelinda's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Kelinda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
7 births
- 1970s
1970s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 11 births (48% of all-time use).
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- Kelinda's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (11 total births) through the 1980s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–1981 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kelinda: Baby Name Since 1968 - 23 Births, Peak 1968." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kelinda. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kelinda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.