Girl
Lynda
As a girl's name, Lynda traces back to Spanish, where it is understood to mean "Spanish pretty or Germanic lind, gentle as a linden tree". It has not kept pace since its 1940s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Since 1900, roughly 77,820 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
EtymologyVariant of Linda
SpanishSpanish "pretty" or Germanic "lind" – "gentle as a linden tree"
Births by decade
1900s
42
1910s
148
1920s
282
1930s
2,194
1940s
28,007
1950s
22,732
1960s
15,704
1970s
4,356
1980s
2,290
1990s
1,057
2000s
683
2010s
325
Peaked in the 1940s · 77,820 total U.S. births since 1900