Is Linda due a comeback?

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My aunt is called Linda (nn Linny) and I just love it. It kind of fits with the trend for old fashioned names but is it not old fashioned enough yet?

Tbh I haven't checked it's position on the baby names ranking...I've never heard of a baby Linda/Linny though. Yep, there were only 18 baby Lindas in 2020 so not popular!

Lyn is nice

Go for it

Linny is cute. Not a fan of Linda

Call your baby Linda. It's fine.
Linda Joanna
Rosalind Yvonne - Linda
Linda Valerie

Nope. Soz.

I find it an ugly name, sorry! Prefer Lynette. NN Netty.

I think it’s a pretty name but it has strong middle age associations for me at the moment - although that would probably change as soon as I met a baby Linda!

To me it still sounds a little old fashioned. I like the meaning - it means beautiful in Spanish/Portuguese. It's quite nice.

I don't think it's going to get popular for children for a long time.

However, there is nothing terrible about it. There are old names that I love, that the masses don't like.

However, having said that I do wonder how your daughter might feel, having a name that is unpopular for her generation and shared by a lot of her peers' grannies!

For this reason I have put the currently unpopular names that I love in the middle name spot.

I really like Lin names so sure why not?

Other options would be Linnea, Linnet or Lynette.

Linny is such a cute nickname.

I really like Linda. It has a nice sound and I like the simplicity. It means beautiful in Portuguese and is less obvious than Belle or Bella. You could also use it as short for Belinda or Rosalind etc. I’m not keen on Linny, though.

I love it but I am of the generation when there was at least one Linda in every class at school.

Lindy might be a possibility, either as the full name or as a nickname for Linda.

It's a nice name, but after seeing the sketch on 'class dismissed' where Linda, was a somewhat hapless PA/ administrator, gets the IT equipment stuck on her name, I'd give it a swerve!

I really like it.
Belinda too.

No

I think Lynne sounds more classic. Maybe it's too soon for Linda, but it's not as bad as the trend for surnames for first names, like Mason and Parker. There's also Lyndy or Lynsey, but I suppose they have a similar vibe. I don't like them, or Belinda. But there you go. DD would've been Scheherazade if I'd my way :) Linny is alright.

I wondered if it might find its way back via Belinda

I think there will soon be a shift in "granny chic" to the names that are common in women aged 60-75. Sharon and Tracey (and Michelle) might be a bit much, but I think names like Deborah, Amanda, Samantha, Pamela, Joanne and Angela will start cropping up

I love it. Also Barbara, which I think is in the same ballpark. I absolutely love the name Sharon (rose of) too.

It's funny how Barbara seems 'normal' now, along with June, thanks to Victoria Coren- Mitchell. But (rose of ) Sharon is pronounced Share- on, I believe.

No,it's not there yet, it's a generation after the current plethora of Evies, Elsies, Graces, Bettys and so on.

I’ve always loved Linda because of Evangelista! Just associate it with her gorgeousness.

You've named many of the members of my WI group, apart from Anne and Sue, of which there are many. Also Jillian, Carol, Linda, Celia, Margaret and Norma. I doubt this is outing - doubtless all WIs are like this! I like Jill the best out of those.

It will come back but we are probably 15-20 years away from its renaissance.

I nearly added Gillian/Jillian/Jill to my list, but I thought it was long enough already! Suzanne/Sue is definitely same era (and back in use via the more Biblical Susannah)

Immediately thought of this. Annoyingly it's someone filming a screen but I couldn't find a better clip. Linda is an adult woman who works in human resources and says stuff like "Mondays..."