Arlinda
Feminine
Arlinda is an American compound and, entirely separately, a common Albanian name. In Albania and Kosovo it is ordinary, one of a set of women's names built on a native element, and it has no connection whatever to the American formation that joins an Arlene front to a Linda ending. Two systems, two continents, one word.
How old is the name Arlinda?
Arlinda first appears in US birth records in 1939 — 86 years ago. The typical Arlinda alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 1,300 people named Arlinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arlinda most popular?
Arlinda peaked in 1949, reaching #1056 nationally. See the whole 1949 chart.
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Where it comes from
From An Albanian name built from native elements to Arlinda
The story of Arlinda
Albanian naming went through a deliberate renewal in the twentieth century, with families and then the state favoring names built from Albanian words over the Ottoman and Christian stock that had dominated before. The result is a large modern layer of names that are genuinely native and genuinely recent, built from elements about light, birth, freedom and the country itself. Names of that layer are now carried by two or three generations and read as traditional inside Albania and as unfamiliar everywhere else. The American name arrived at the same letters by a different road entirely, joining two pieces that were both fashionable in the middle of the century, and neither community would recognize the other's version as their own.
Meaningnot established
Not established
As an American formation neither half carries meaning: the front belongs to a family with no traceable ancestor and the ending is a name used as a suffix. The Albanian name is a separate matter with its own derivation, and it is not the source of the American one. A given certificate could be either, and the spelling records nothing that would settle it.
How the name formed
- An Albanian name built from native elements
- An American compound of an Arlene front and a Linda ending
- Both arriving at the same spelling
- Arlinda in the American registers from the nineteen thirties
Related forms: Arlinda
Pronouncing Arlinda
ar-LIN-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Albanian says it much the same way, which is a coincidence rather than a connection, and gives the final vowel a fuller sound than English does.
Nicknames for Arlinda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1939
- Most girls named
- 194972 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1056reached in 1949
- Change vs 2010
- 0.0%8 in 2013, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arlinda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Arlinda in Albanian — same name
Arlindas among us
people named Arlinda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Arlinda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Linda sits inside it as a completely familiar short form.
- It is a real traditional name somewhere in the world, which most American compounds are not.
- The rhythm is even and the name is easy to say correctly on a first attempt.
- It will be written Arlynda or Erlinda by people taking it from speech.
- There is no meaning on the American route, and the Albanian one belongs to a different name.
- It is firmly of the middle of the twentieth century.
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- How many Arlindas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Arlinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Arlinda in 2025?
- Arlinda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Arlinda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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