Linnette
Linnette was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,144 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Linnette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 38 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linnette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Linnette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,591, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1971, the peak
Linnette peaked in 1971, when 36 girls were given it, #2,227 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,591 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,177 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,038 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,972 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,966 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,695 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,173 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,819 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,480 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,604 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 8 | #12,285 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,597 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,592 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,381 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,560 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,518 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,376 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,585 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,866 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,909 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,873 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,884 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,725 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,423 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,776 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,199 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,168 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,099 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,214 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,724 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,202 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,257 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,758 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,569 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,145 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,192 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,097 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,237 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,579 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,141 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,794 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,349 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,227 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,823 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,264 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,075 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,992 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,283 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,139 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,172 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,667 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,636 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,277 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,779 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,932 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,235 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,320 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,176 | 13.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,680 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,158 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,268 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,050 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,441 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,391 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,470 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,754 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,588 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,366 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,548 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,469 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,416 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,614 | 4.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,515 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Linnette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Linnette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Linnette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linnette, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,144 Americans ever recorded as Linnette. The median Linnette alive today is 55 years old; half are between 38 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,524 people named Linnette (1,521 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,041 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above 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 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 308 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 217 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28 |
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).
How common is the spelling Linnette?
Linnette is a less common spelling of Lynette: SSA has recorded 1,144 Linnette and 43,445 Lynette since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 64,851 babies since 1880, Linnette is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 96 babies recorded by SSA was a Linnette (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 Linnette
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 Linnette and names like it
- Compare Linnette and LynetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLinnette peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linnette since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Linnette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Linnette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.