Lynda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Linda
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪndə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lynda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 167as Linda(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 193as Linda
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 197as Linda
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lynda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #60 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 645 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)
1,164,876 named Linda, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est., as Linda
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Linda in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Linda.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lynda, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lynda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #23 | 1,164,876as Linda | 1 in 286 | 1.2M | Linda | 645 |
| GB United Kingdom | #27 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 202 | 11 | Linda | 351 |
| IT Italy | #63 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 334 | 2 | Linda | 177 |
| CA Canada | #15 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | 10 | Linda | 339 |
| EG Egypt | #270 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | — | Linda | 65 |
| SE Sweden | #25 | 52,786as Linda | 1 in 193 | 53K | Linda | 154 |
| IE Ireland | #16 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 167 | — | Linda | 150 |
| NZ New Zealand | #18 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 197 | 13 | Linda | 162 |
1,164,876 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lynda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, to get along with someone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lynda Baronb. 1939GBEnglish actress
- Lynda Benglisb. 1941USAmerican video artist, photographer, and sculptor (born 1941)
- Lynda La Planteb. 1943GBEnglish writer and actress
- Lynda Bird Johnson Robbb. 1944USAmerican businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1944)
- Lynda Day Georgeb. 1944USAmerican actress
- Lynda Mylesb. 1947GBBritish producer
- Lynda Rosen Obstb. 1950USAmerican feature film producer and author (1950–2024)
- Lynda Carterb. 1951USAmerican actress, singer, and beauty pageant titleholder
- Lynda Boydb. 1965CACanadian actress
- Lynda Lopezb. 1971USAmerican journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 65K | #770 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 60 | #12,114 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 40 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37 | #770 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 30 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1984 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1997 | 4 | #557 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1997 | 3 | #358 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,333 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2014 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Lynda?
- In the etymology graph, Linda is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Lynda a male or female name?
- Lynda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lynda mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Linda. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lynda?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪndə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lynda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Linda, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lynda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,164,876 people named Linda in 2020, about 1 in 286 residents.
- How common is Lynda compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lynda is the 23rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lynda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lyndaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lynda” — the 23rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.