Linette

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births

Peak · girls
1970 · 156 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,285
since 1925

Linette over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201925peak #860, 1970girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#13,2086
2024#10,2719
2023#10,3129
2022#9,68010
2021#9,56210
2020#7,55914
2019#10,4739
2018#9,80610
2017#7,09216
2016#7,60215
2015#10,14810
2014#6,71318
2013#5,83422
2012#5,89522
2011#5,06327
2010#4,86029
2009#5,70924
2008#3,93640
2007#5,09728
2006#3,31649
2005#3,73039
2004#3,98935
2003#3,59039
2002#3,81034
2001#3,25642
2000#3,88632
1999#3,18840
1998#4,95521
1997#3,36534
1996#3,56931
1995#2,93240
1994#2,93540
1993#2,60047
1992#2,97439
1991#2,24258
1990#2,43750
1989#2,11958
1988#2,21651
1987#1,94458
1986#2,30044
1985#2,25345
1984#2,47038
1983#2,59534
1982#2,53237
1981#2,00952
1980#2,15447
1979#1,95253
1978#1,52373
1977#1,44077
1976#1,26388
1975#1,19297
1974#1,47367
1973#1,17592
1972#1,11699
1971#870154
1970#860156
1969#876143
1968#1,042100
1967#959113
1966#922120
1965#922120
1964#928128
1963#1,065102
1962#1,14591
1961#1,14492
1960#1,33868
1959#1,28170
1958#1,21177
1957#1,15983
1956#1,12984
1955#1,30959
1954#1,34455
1953#1,37350
1952#1,36850
1951#1,36247
1950#1,36545
1949#1,60334
1948#2,12621
1947#2,35418
1946#2,39216
1945#2,45813
1944#4,5745
1943#2,86111
1942#2,98610
1941#3,5597
1940#2,42412
1939#3,7826
1938#4,3425
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First appearance
1925

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.

See more about Linette
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
45 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1925
  • Peaked 1970 at #860 (156 births)
  • Births halved by 1974, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1964–1967
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,804
  • 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
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 25.1% of all girls named Linette (1,077) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s12#4,195 (1928)#4,311
1930s11#3,782 (1939)#4,062
1940s147#1,603 (1949)#2,734
1950s620#1,129 (1956)#1,290
1960s1,077#876 (1969)#1,034
1970s956#860 (1970)#1,286
1980s464#1,944 (1987)#2,259
1990s400#2,242 (1991)#3,120
2000s362#3,256 (2001)#4,032
2010s178#4,860 (2010)#7,349
2020s58#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 1925

girls
#4,426
6 births · 1 in 202,897 girls

Top girls' names in 1925

  1. #1Mary70,586
  2. #2Dorothy38,570
  3. #3Betty32,812
  4. #4Helen29,173
  5. #5Margaret24,463
  6. #6Ruth22,247
  7. #7Virginia17,490
  8. #8Doris16,075
  9. #9Mildred14,453
  10. #10Elizabeth13,936
  11. #4,426Linette6
More about 1925

girls

1,217,384 girls got a published name in 1925; 1 in 202,897 of them was named Linette, which outranked 23.3% of the 5,771 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Linette
  1. #4,028Yuki7
  2. #4,028Zenia7
  3. #4,028Zuma7
  4. #4,426Linette6
  5. #4,426Adam6
  6. #4,426Adena6
  7. #4,426Adene6
  8. #4,973Adalee5
  9. #4,973Adean5
  10. #4,973Adelfa5

Tied with 546 names at #4,426; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. 605Nanette#1,475#870
  2. 417Paulina#1,258#841
  3. 353Estela#1,258#905
  4. 323Delois#1,123#800
  5. 313Veola#1,301#988
Fallers
  1. 610Kathlyn#999#1,609
  2. 396Izetta#951#1,347
  3. 355Loma#941#1,296
  4. 345Phylis#880#1,225
  5. 309Eris#728#1,037

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

See the top 100 for 1925