Entry № 5950 · Spanish origin

Linda Linda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LIN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Pretty (peaked #1 from 1947 to 1952; Linda Ronstadt, Linda Lovelace)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Spanish)

A name that means "pretty (peaked #1 from 1947 to 1952; linda ronstadt, linda lovelace)".

Linda is the Spanish word for "pretty, beautiful," or alternately from the Old High German lind ("soft, tender, gentle"). The most popular US baby name from 1947 to 1952, peaking at #1 — over 300,000 American girls were named Linda in that span. Board of Education (1954).

Pretty (peaked #1 from 1947 to 1952; Linda Ronstadt, Linda Lovelace) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Linda
Transliteration
Linda
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɪn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Linda stands.

Linda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lindas before her.

Real people
Linda Ronstadt
American rock singer.
born 1946
Linda Brown
Brown v. Board of Education.
1943 – 2018
In fiction
Linda
Death of a Salesman.
1949

Names connected to Linda.

The number behind Linda.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Linda reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.