Mylinda
Mylinda was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 808 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mylinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mylinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,266, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1957, the peak
Mylinda peaked in 1957, when 35 girls were given it, #1,855 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,266 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,566 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,946 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,472 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,547 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,716 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,714 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,991 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,204 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,967 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 13 | #6,915 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,393 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,682 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,411 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,990 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,827 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,659 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,388 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,613 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,808 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,111 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,784 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,440 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,634 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,239 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,179 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,511 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,882 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,976 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,721 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,719 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,065 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,749 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,335 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,343 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,683 | 13.3 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,636 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,101 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,582 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,592 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,244 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,517 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,959 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,967 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,294 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,855 | 17.1 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,016 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,329 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,003 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,475 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,153 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,425 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,860 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,081 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,125 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mylinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mylinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mylinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mylinda, and how old are they?
An estimated 728 Americans named Mylinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 44 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 724 people named Mylinda (721 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,841 babies since 1880, Mylinda is the second most given (44% 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 Mylinda
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 Mylinda and names like it
- Compare Mylinda and MilindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMylinda peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mylinda since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Mylinda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mylinda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.