Girl name#1,435 of girl names
Linnea
Pronounced L IH1 N IY0 AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2015
- 131 years in use
How popular is Linnea?
Linnea is a girls' name, and first appears in 1894. It has been given to 9,793 children — the 1,435th most common girls' name on record.
Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2015, when 177 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- L IH1 N IY0 AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 100
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Linnea
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Linnea
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Linnea?
- Linnea ranks 1,435th among girls' names in US records, with 9,793 births since 1894. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,444.
- Is Linnea a unisex name?
- No. Linnea is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Linnea most popular?
- 2015, when 177 children were given the name. It has been in use for 131 years and is still recorded as of 2024.