Linnea

Where Linnea comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Linnea.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Linnea through the years
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Peak, #741
    101 babies named Linnea, its best rank.
  3. 1958
    Linnea Quigley born
    American actress
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,804.
  5. 1993
    Linnea Berthelsen born
    Danish actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin of Swedish origin, occasionally used since the twentieth century.
Namesakes
  • Linnea Quigley · American actress, born 1958
  • Linnea Berthelsen · Danish actress, born 1993
  • Linnea Torstenson · Swedish handball player, born 1983
  • Linnea Liljegärd · Swedish association football player, born 1988
  • Linnea Henriksson · Swedish singer, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.