Erlinda

Where Erlinda comes from

Erlinda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,932 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Erlinda Cortes born
    Filipino actress
  3. 1949
    Peak, #632
    171 babies named Erlinda — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1950
    Erlinda K. Alburo born
    prolific contemporary Cebuano language scholar and promoter of the language
  5. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,220.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Erlinda Cortes · Filipino actress, 1924–2015
  • Erlinda K. Alburo · prolific contemporary Cebuano language scholar and promoter of the language, born 1950

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.