Valinda

Last seen for girls in 1997 at #13,724

Peak · girls
1954 · 136 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,363
since 1942

Valinda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Valinda has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201965peak #806, 1954girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1997#13,7245
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1988#10,3866
1987#6,78810
1986#8,5237
1985#8,3187
1984#8,1537
1983#7,3128
1982#4,16718
1981#4,74615
1980#4,51716
1979#5,75111
1978#3,92418
1977#4,94213
1976#5,60110
1975#3,63718
1974#3,21221
1973#3,34219
1972#3,89415
1971#2,66527
1970#2,64727
1969#2,29631
1968#2,09133
1967#2,49224
1966#2,02233
1965#1,99334
1964#1,63549
1963#1,71545
1962#1,82639
1961#1,55353
1960#1,74742
1959#1,30667
1958#1,39558
1957#1,42755
1956#1,43754
1955#1,32058
1954#806136
1953#1,73833
1952#1,74632
1951#1,77230
1950#1,60234
1949#1,56435
1948#1,73929
1947#2,14621
1946#2,59714
1945#2,74211
1944#2,40114
1943#3,4938
1942#3,7387
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First appearance
1942

The first year at least five girls were named Valinda! It came in at #3,738, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Valinda is popular in 1965

No state had 5 or more girls named Valinda in 1965, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
  • Biggest jump: 932 spots in 1954 (#1,738 → #806)
  • Biggest drop: 514 spots in 1955 (#806 → #1,320)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1942
  • Peaked 1954 at #806 (136 births)
  • Births halved by 1955, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1954
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,279
  • Highest: 1 in 14,279 girls born in 1954 were named Valinda (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 348,142 girls born in 1997 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 40.9% of all girls named Valinda (557) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s139#1,564 (1949)#2,553
1950s557#806 (1954)#1,455
1960s383#1,553 (1961)#1,937
1970s179#2,647 (1970)#3,962
1980s94#4,167 (1982)#6,990
1990s11#11,780 (1993)#12,752

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.

Valinda in 1965

girls
#1,993
34 births · 1 in 51,917 girls

Top girls' names in 1965

  1. #1Lisa60,271
  2. #2Mary34,270
  3. #3Karen32,869
  4. #4Kimberly28,836
  5. #5Susan26,321
  6. #6Patricia23,552
  7. #7Donna19,700
  8. #8Linda19,345
  9. #9Cynthia19,239
  10. #10Angela18,754
  11. #1,993Valinda34
More about 1965

girls

1,765,164 girls got a published name in 1965; 1 in 51,917 of them was named Valinda, which outranked 73.6% of the 7,535 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Valinda
  1. #1,950Vincent35
  2. #1,950Youlanda35
  3. #1,950Zella35
  4. #1,993Valinda34
  5. #1,993Andree34
  6. #1,993Arlette34
  7. #1,993Arthur34
  8. #2,031Alene33
  9. #2,031Alise33
  10. #2,031Allene33

Tied with 37 names at #1,993; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1964
Risers
  1. ↑ 723Marni#1,610 → #887
  2. ↑ 654Dionne#1,281 → #627
  3. ↑ 432Marnie#1,016 → #584
  4. ↑ 426Keli#1,383 → #957
  5. ↑ 368Gia#1,334 → #966
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,326Djuna#738 → #2,064
  2. ↓ 470Djuana#756 → #1,226
  3. ↓ 383Shirl#714 → #1,097
  4. ↓ 297Beverley#955 → #1,252
  5. ↓ 275Dottie#912 → #1,187

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1965 →