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Erlinda

Erlinda reached its high-water mark in 1949 at number 632, and has been recorded 4,656 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 2,900 Erlindas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Erlinda

By the numbers

Total US births
4,656
Estimated living today
2,900
Median age today
67
Peak year
1949
Best rank
632nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1900

How old the living Erlindas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,656 babies given the name since 1900, about 2,900 are alive — 63 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Erlinda is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Erlinda is most concentrated in New Mexico (32.0×), Arizona (7.3×), Texas (4.6×), California (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1949

The most popular girls’ names the year Erlinda peaked:

All the names of 1949

Erlinda among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Erlinda 7 10

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Erlinda lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 287 women called Erlinda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Madrid Erlinda 89 0.024 1,925
León Erlinda 5 0.022 1,822
Ciudad Real Erlinda 5 0.020 1,643
Bizkaia Erlinda 12 0.020 2,082
Granada Erlinda 8 0.017 2,062
Barcelona Erlinda 50 0.016 2,563

Listed in 11 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 41 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.