Linette
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 156 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,285since 1925
Linette over time
Rank among girls' names. Linette has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 1991 | #2,242 | 58 |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 |
| 1989 | #2,119 | 58 |
| 1988 | #2,216 | 51 |
| 1987 | #1,944 | 58 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #2,253 | 45 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 |
| 1981 | #2,009 | 52 |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 |
| 1979 | #1,952 | 53 |
| 1978 | #1,523 | 73 |
| 1977 | #1,440 | 77 |
| 1976 | #1,263 | 88 |
| 1975 | #1,192 | 97 |
| 1974 | #1,473 | 67 |
| 1973 | #1,175 | 92 |
| 1972 | #1,116 | 99 |
| 1971 | #870 | 154 |
| 1970 | #860 | 156 |
| 1969 | #876 | 143 |
| 1968 | #1,042 | 100 |
| 1967 | #959 | 113 |
| 1966 | #922 | 120 |
| 1965 | #922 | 120 |
| 1964 | #928 | 128 |
| 1963 | #1,065 | 102 |
| 1962 | #1,145 | 91 |
| 1961 | #1,144 | 92 |
| 1960 | #1,338 | 68 |
| 1959 | #1,281 | 70 |
| 1958 | #1,211 | 77 |
| 1957 | #1,159 | 83 |
| 1956 | #1,129 | 84 |
| 1955 | #1,309 | 59 |
| 1954 | #1,344 | 55 |
| 1953 | #1,373 | 50 |
| 1952 | #1,368 | 50 |
| 1951 | #1,362 | 47 |
| 1950 | #1,365 | 45 |
| 1949 | #1,603 | 34 |
| 1948 | #2,126 | 21 |
| 1947 | #2,354 | 18 |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
| 1943 | #2,861 | 11 |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
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| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Linette! It came in at #4,426, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1927, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Linette is popular in 1962
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#417 · 1 in 4,737
- Pennsylvania#675 · 1 in 11,594
- Michigan#780 · 1 in 13,680
- New York#1,023 · 1 in 20,422
- California#1,078 · 1 in 17,348
Best ever in a state: #284 in Nebraska, 1964.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #417 | 8 | 1 in 4,737 |
| Pennsylvania | #675 | 9 | 1 in 11,594 |
| Michigan | #780 | 6 | 1 in 13,680 |
| New York | #1,023 | 8 | 1 in 20,422 |
| California | #1,078 | 10 | 1 in 17,348 |
| Texas | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 18,426 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Linette
- 2,937 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #13,208)
- 5,649 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #13,208)
- 3,060 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 166 spots in 1969 (#1,042 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 246 spots in 1972 (#870 → #1,116)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1970 at #860 (156 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1964–1967
- Highest: 1 in 10,804 girls born in 1971 were named Linette (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #860 in 1970, was only 1 in 11,206 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.1% of all girls named Linette (1,077) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 12 | #4,195 (1928) | #4,311 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,782 (1939) | #4,062 |
| 1940s | 147 | #1,603 (1949) | #2,734 |
| 1950s | 620 | #1,129 (1956) | #1,290 |
| 1960s | 1,077 | #876 (1969) | #1,034 |
| 1970s | 956 | #860 (1970) | #1,286 |
| 1980s | 464 | #1,944 (1987) | #2,259 |
| 1990s | 400 | #2,242 (1991) | #3,120 |
| 2000s | 362 | #3,256 (2001) | #4,032 |
| 2010s | 178 | #4,860 (2010) | #7,349 |
| 2020s | 58 | #7,559 (2020) | #10,099 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Linette in 1962
Top girls' names in 1962
More about 1962
girls
1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 21,611 of them was named Linette, which outranked 84.9% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,138Loree92
- #1,138Princess92
- #1,138Vilma92
- #1,145Linette91
- #1,145Kevin91
- #1,145Margret91
- #1,145Natasha91
- #1,152Bethann90
- #1,152Carie90
- #1,152Carolann90
Tied with 6 names at #1,145; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.