# Lynda (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lynda/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 78,098 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 119 / 77,979 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 58, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 38 | 3,976 |
| 2012 | 46 | 3,505 |
| 2013 | 40 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 60 | 2,877 |
| 2015 | 35 | 4,196 |
| 2016 | 33 | 4,401 |
| 2017 | 35 | 4,195 |
| 2018 | 32 | 4,416 |
| 2019 | 36 | 4,047 |
| 2020 | 21 | 5,769 |
| 2021 | 33 | 4,296 |
| 2022 | 30 | 4,635 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,498 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,980 |
| 2025 | 30 | 4,619 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 8 | 2,849 |
| 1943 | 9 | 2,666 |
| 1945 | 10 | 2,337 |
| 1946 | 6 | 3,390 |
| 1947 | 10 | 2,602 |
| 1948 | 7 | 3,195 |
| 1950 | 9 | 2,703 |
| 1951 | 6 | 3,582 |
| 1953 | 6 | 3,650 |
| 1954 | 7 | 3,335 |
| 1958 | 5 | 4,293 |
| 1959 | 9 | 2,965 |
| 1963 | 5 | 4,408 |
| 1968 | 6 | 3,970 |
| 1973 | 8 | 3,930 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 1997 | 6 | 2,411 |
| 1998 | 9 | 1,823 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2000 | 7 | 2,167 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3,594 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3,156 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |

## People named Lynda

- Lynda Carter, American actress, singer, and beauty pageant titleholder
- Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress
- Lynda Day George, American actress
- Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer
- Lynda Benglis, American video artist, photographer, and sculptor (born 1941)
- Lynda Bellingham, British actress (1948-2014)
- Lynda La Plante, English writer and actress
- Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1944)
- Lynda Cornet, Dutch rower
- Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
- Lynda Tolbert-Goode, American hurdler
- Lynda Baron, English actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.