Marinda — girls' name
1,714 babies named Marinda in U.S. Social Security records since 1881, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Marinda was born in this single decade.
48 babies were named Marinda in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marinda
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,714 babies named Marinda between 1881 and 2014, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marinda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 48 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marinda performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 340 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Marinda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Marinda in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marinda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,714 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Marinda at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marinda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1881
- Peak year (1980)
- 48
- Annual births at peak — across 134 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
1,714 total births across 134 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 48 births in a single year.
Marinda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 340 births that decade — 20% of Marinda's all-time total
Marinda decade highlights
- Peak decade 340 births
- Runner-up 327 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Marinda's strongest decade
340 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Marinda by state
Where Marinda concentrates geographically — total births since 1881
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 28 | 1.6% |
| #2 | Utah | | 27 | 1.6% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #4 | Texas | | 5 | 0.3% |
28 of 1,714 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 1.6% of nationwide
- Utah 1.6% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.3% of nationwide
- Texas 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1881–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.