Larenda
Larenda was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 347 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Larenda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Larenda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,709, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1985, the peak
Larenda peaked in 1985, when 16 girls were given it, #4,750 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #14,709 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,917 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,748 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,524 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,910 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,578 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,750 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,383 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,542 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,377 | 7.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 8 | #7,786 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,788 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,955 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,770 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,055 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,952 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,460 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,286 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,069 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,284 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,961 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,958 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,293 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,114 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,954 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,543 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,662 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,752 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,541 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,520 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,089 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,053 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,472 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,572 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,760 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,802 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,529 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Larenda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Larenda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Larenda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Larenda, and how old are they?
An estimated 318 Americans named Larenda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 44 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 305 people named Larenda (300 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,297 babies since 1880, Larenda is the fifth most given (4.8% 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 Larenda
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 Larenda and names like it
- Compare Larenda and LarhondaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLarenda peaked in 1985.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Larenda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Larenda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.