girls:
4.3k births since 1925
#2629 (54th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1925
#4195 (46th percentile)
The name Linette is the #4,195 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,268 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 45.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,629 (54.0% percentile) for all time with 4,268 births since 1925.
Linette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (first recorded for girls in 1925). Birth data for Linette is available in 88 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Linette reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 19.6% percentile (ranked #622) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 88 births per million (ranked 19.4% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Linette ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 5.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Linette".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Linette", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lynette" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lynette..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Linette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Linette is pronounced as lih-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-NEHT, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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