girls:
72.7k births since 1889
#461 (92nd percentile)
boys:
150 births since 1950
#4436 (3rd percentile)
overall:
72.9k births since 1889
#851 (89th percentile)
The name Belinda is the #851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 72,883 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 89.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #461 (91.9% percentile) for all time with 72,733 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #4,436 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 150 births since 1950.
Belinda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1950 for boys). Birth data for Belinda is available in 123 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (123 years for girls and 23 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Belinda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Belinda reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 82.2% percentile (ranked #141) with 1,502 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 1,502 births per million (ranked 82.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Belinda ranks #830 for girls (12.4% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Belinda reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #652) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Belinda".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Belinda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.0% confident that Belinda is pronounced as buh-LIHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bih-LIHN-duh, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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