Linna
Linna was last recorded in 2024, when 11 babies were given it; 876 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Linna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Linna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Linna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,302, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1950, the peak
Linna peaked in 1950, when 20 girls were given it, #2,220 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 | #9,302 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,442 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,590 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,696 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,921 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,226 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,048 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,232 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,536 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,871 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,751 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,170 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,965 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,973 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,371 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,183 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,393 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,092 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,624 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,272 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,965 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,215 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,517 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,473 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,278 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,456 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,253 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,419 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,178 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,850 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,633 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,788 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,403 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,787 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,335 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,879 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,117 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,586 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,221 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,357 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,123 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,592 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,581 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,020 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,735 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,778 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,430 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,734 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,366 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,730 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,992 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,329 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,362 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,401 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,055 | 5.0 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,145 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,831 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,735 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,622 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,220 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,931 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,774 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,986 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,741 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,029 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,862 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,788 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,110 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,212 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,738 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,037 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,398 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,069 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,570 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,651 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,705 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,514 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,356 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,111 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,099 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,757 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,254 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,267 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,520 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,441 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,561 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,673 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,648 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,092 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,379 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,174 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,656 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,940 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,465 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,221 | 9.0 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,849 | 20.3 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,285 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,089 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,737 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,836 | 19.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,727 | 21.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,551 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,370 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,157 | 37.7 |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,001 | 44.8 |
| 1886 | 7 | #952 | 48.4 |
| 1883 | 6 | #874 | 53.4 |
| 1880 | 5 | #889 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Linna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Linna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Linna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linna, and how old are they?
An estimated 552 Americans named Linna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 20 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 914 people named Linna (909 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
How common is the spelling Linna?
Linna is a less common spelling of Lina: SSA has recorded 876 Linna and 19,494 Lina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 132,417 babies since 1880, Linna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,722 babies recorded by SSA was a Linna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Linna
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 Linna and names like it
- Compare Linna and LinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLinna peaked in 1950.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linna since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Linna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Linna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.