Mylinda — girls' name
808 babies named Mylinda in U.S. Social Security records since 1947, with the highest year being 1957. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Mylinda was born in this single decade.
35 babies were named Mylinda in 1957 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mylinda
The Social Security Administration has registered 808 babies named Mylinda between 1947 and 2012, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mylinda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 35 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mylinda performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 253 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Mylinda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Mylinda in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mylinda 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 808 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.
Mylinda at a glance
Last recorded 2012Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mylinda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–1947
- Peak year (1957)
- 35
- Annual births at peak — across 66 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2012.
808 total births across 66 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1957 with 35 births in a single year.
Mylinda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 253 births that decade — 31% of Mylinda's all-time total
Mylinda decade highlights
- Peak decade 253 births
- Runner-up 187 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Mylinda's strongest decade
253 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Mylinda by state
Where Mylinda concentrates geographically — total births since 1947
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 1.2% |
| #2 | California | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Florida | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #4 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.6% |
10 of 808 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.2% of nationwide
- California 0.7% of nationwide
- Florida 0.6% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.2% 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, 1947–2012 (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.