Linette
Linette was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,211 among girls’ names; 4,285 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Linette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 36 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Linette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Linette is “a female given name from Welsh.”
In modern use a spelling variant of Lynette, though it is also identical with a rare French name, diminutive of Line, from Caroline, Pauline and other female names ending in -line.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Linette?
#14,211 among girls’ names, 2025
Linette fell from #10,560 in 2015 to #14,211 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
156 babies in 1970, the peak
Linette peaked in 1970, when 156 girls were given it, #863 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,211 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,744 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,818 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,108 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,998 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,787 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,996 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,246 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,285 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,827 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,560 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,885 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,934 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,025 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,144 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,922 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,813 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,977 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,173 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,347 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,776 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,050 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,630 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,852 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,282 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,937 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,221 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,050 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,405 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,590 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,950 | 22.7 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,964 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,616 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,005 | 21.2 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,252 | 30.9 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,448 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,130 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,229 | 28.6 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,953 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,319 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,273 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,498 | 22.6 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,631 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,559 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,020 | 31.2 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,170 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,962 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,530 | 47.7 |
| 1977 | 77 | #1,445 | 50.2 |
| 1976 | 88 | #1,266 | 60.1 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,198 | 66.5 |
| 1974 | 67 | #1,479 | 45.7 |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,180 | 63.1 |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,125 | 65.1 |
| 1971 | 154 | #875 | 92.6 |
| 1970 | 156 | #863 | 89.2 |
| 1969 | 143 | #877 | 84.8 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,047 | 61.0 |
| 1967 | 113 | #963 | 68.4 |
| 1966 | 120 | #925 | 70.9 |
| 1965 | 120 | #929 | 68.0 |
| 1964 | 128 | #930 | 67.6 |
| 1963 | 102 | #1,070 | 52.9 |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,146 | 46.3 |
| 1961 | 92 | #1,149 | 45.6 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,345 | 33.6 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,283 | 34.6 |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,215 | 38.3 |
| 1957 | 83 | #1,162 | 40.6 |
| 1956 | 84 | #1,128 | 41.8 |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,314 | 30.2 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,358 | 28.3 |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,383 | 26.6 |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,375 | 27.0 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,373 | 26.1 |
| 1950 | 45 | #1,370 | 26.3 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,616 | 19.9 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,159 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,406 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,440 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,543 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,957 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,966 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,109 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,796 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,500 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,047 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,695 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,487 | 5.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,719 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Linette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Linette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Linette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linette, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 4,285 Americans ever recorded as Linette. The median Linette alive today is 53 years old; half are between 36 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 4,238 people named Linette (4,233 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,928 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 962 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 702 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 529 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 157 |
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 Linette born?
The states with the most babies named Linette are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 588 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 456 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 180 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 131 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 118 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 101 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 84 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 60 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Linette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Linette is most over-represented in New York: since 1925 it was given 1.4 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 Linette 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 65,788 babies since 1880, Linette is the third most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 96 babies (6.3%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Linette
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 Linette and names like it
- Compare Linette and LynetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLinette peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linette since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Linette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Linette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Linette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.