Linnie

Where Linnie comes from

The dictionaries list Linnie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Linda — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #240 among girls — 41 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #189
    65 babies named Linnie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,150.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Linda.
Namesakes

No widely known Linnie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.