Rinda
Rinda was last recorded in 1985, when 6 babies were given it; 856 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,319, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1957, the peak
Rinda peaked in 1957, when 35 girls were given it, #1,859 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #10,319 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,924 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,157 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,710 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,963 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,854 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,737 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,479 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,326 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,118 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | #8,166 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,851 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,426 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,316 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,355 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,059 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,548 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,899 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,375 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,458 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,347 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,515 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,400 | 12.9 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,285 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,445 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,646 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,859 | 17.1 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,183 | 13.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,619 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,824 | 17.0 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,224 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,967 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,797 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,041 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,262 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,401 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,747 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,296 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,883 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,488 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,672 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,775 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,082 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,920 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,101 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,703 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,174 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,487 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,123 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,205 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,739 | 5.0 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,475 | 4.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,573 | 4.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,792 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,019 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,375 | 8.1 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,902 | 10.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,176 | 17.3 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,891 | 20.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,923 | 19.3 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,669 | 22.4 |
| 1885 | 7 | #906 | 52.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,144 | 38.8 |
| 1882 | 7 | #799 | 64.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rinda, and how old are they?
An estimated 581 Americans named Rinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 61 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 696 people named Rinda (688 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,067 babies since 1880, Rinda is the most given (80% 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.
More about Rinda and names like it
- Compare Rinda and RindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRinda peaked in 1957.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rinda since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Rinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.