girls:
8k births since 1880
#1827 (68th percentile)
boys:
712 births since 1890
#3875 (15th percentile)
overall:
8.7k births since 1880
#2906 (62nd percentile)
The name Linnie is the #2,906 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,680 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 62.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,827 (68.0% percentile) for all time with 7,968 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,875 (15.5% percentile) for all time with 712 births since 1890.
Linnie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1890 for boys). Birth data for Linnie is available in 126 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (126 years for girls and 75 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 Linnie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Linnie reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 30.4% percentile (ranked #198) with 501 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 658 births per million (ranked 25.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Linnie ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Linnie reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #534) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 60 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Linnie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Linnie is pronounced as LIH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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