Delinda
Feminine
Delinda, Belinda and Melinda differ by one consonant each and by nothing else. Four names, if Rosalinda is counted, sharing a body and distinguished only by whatever is standing at the front of it. That is not how most name families work, and it is worth knowing before choosing one of them.
How old is the name Delinda?
Delinda first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Delinda alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 1,900 people named Delinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Delinda most popular?
Delinda peaked in 1965, reaching #957 nationally. See the whole 1965 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Linda to Delinda
The story of Delinda
The tree inside these names is worth clearing up, because two unrelated words have been confused for centuries. The lime in lime tree is not the citrus. The tree is the linden, called lime in British English through a series of sound changes from an older English word, and the fruit is an entirely separate borrowing from Arabic by way of Spanish and French. They arrived in the language from opposite directions and mean nothing to each other. The Germanic element in these names, insofar as it can be pinned down at all, points at the tree — its wood was light and tough and was used for shields — and not at anything you would put in a drink.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The shared ending has a disputed Germanic source and the first element here has none at all. With one half unsettled and the other half meaningless, no honest reading can be assembled. Pages that give one are choosing between guesses.
How the name formed
- Linda
- Belinda
- Delinda
Pronouncing Delinda
duh-LIN-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first syllable is unstressed and reduces, which is why the family members are so easily confused in speech.
Nicknames for Delinda
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
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 1964117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #957reached in 1965
- Change vs 2009
- −37.5%5 in 2012, 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.
Delindas among us
people named Delinda 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
Delinda 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 and Lindy both sit inside it as ready and familiar short forms.
- The rhythm is comfortable and the spelling matches the sound exactly.
- It is far rarer than its relatives while being no harder to say.
- It differs from three commoner names by one letter and gets confused with all of them.
- No meaning can be given honestly, whatever other pages claim.
- It is tied to the middle decades of the last century in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Delindas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Delinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Delinda in 2025?
- Delinda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Delinda with classmates?
- Delinda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
Dorothy#421 · Donna#1962 · Deborah#862 · Debra#4460 · Diane#2607 · Doris#2895 · Denise#1673 · Danielle#549
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