Girl
Linda
The single most popular American girls' name of the 1940s, at one point given to roughly one in every hundred baby girls. It has not kept pace since its 1950s peak. In the current registry, it is a name nearly everyone knows.
SpanishPretty
SpanishBeautiful
Births by decade
1900s
996
1910s
2,395
1920s
4,467
1930s
29,486
1940s
532,960
1950s
565,481
1960s
226,103
1970s
46,130
1980s
22,975
1990s
12,859
2000s
7,197
2010s
3,592
Peaked in the 1950s · 1,454,641 total U.S. births since 1900