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!

I think Linda is a pretty name in it's own right, light and airy. I also know an Angela and initially it sounded funny, now I think of Angel/a, again, it's a pretty name.

Much better than Doris or Violet or IMO in that they are pretty sounding names. I wouldn't worry if they sound 'old-fashioned' as everything sounds old fashioned to older people and the younger ones won't care. They won't even remember the glamorous Linda Evans off Dallas!

Plus Linny is a pretty short name, so Linda (Linny) seems nice to me.

Fashion is odd. The names that are popular now would have been seen as very old fashioned when I was young. Names that were popular when I was young like Linda, Susan and Tracy are seen as old fashioned now as do names from just children's generation.
I think to be fashionable names have to skip a few generations so names fashionable now are names that were popular in their great, or great grandparents time.

It's a lovely name.
A proper name
Go for it

I think it will be back. Like Tracy it was originally seen as incredibly chic! Nancy Mitford’s heroine was Linda and Tracy Lord from High Society.

Personally I hope not - to me it's right up there there with my past 1970s classmate generation of Michelle, Beverley, Angela, Debbie, Julie and Tracey.

I like it! Possibly due to having lived in Portugal for a few years as a teen where 'linda' means 'beautiful' so that's the first thing I associate it with 😁 . I also do just think it's nice sounding as a name in its own right, unlike some more old fashioned names that have had a resurgence in recent years.

I think it’s a pretty name in the same way I think Pamela or Angela are pretty names but I would not use it for a baby. It’s definitely too soon and I associate it with 60+ year olds.

Another 15-20 years, I reckon, when the baby boomers’ grandchildren are having their own children.

(on the basis that Arthur/Mabel/Evelyn/Jack were old people names when my generation were at primary school and now we can’t move for them)

No! Old fashioned classic names are coming back. Linda is certainly not classic, it just screams 70s!

I hope not

I quite like Linda, but at the moment it is an old fashioned name rather than a Granny Chic name, though I really like Belinda and Melinda.
Also, with a similar vibe is Lucinda which I think is a beautiful name.

I know too many. I always think it’s such a boring name. It shouldn’t come back

YES!
I also like Debbie

😳 Please no!!

If you like it then go for it, I actually think it's pretty the more I say it! You could also go for Belinda with Linda for short then there's always the option to go for Belle as a nickname if DD prefers when she's older

I think perhaps because it carried on being popular into the 60s so a bit early to revive

You could be in the vanguard though, it does fit with all the Lola/luna/Leila/lena/lara/lyra names - that would put me off a bit though, there are so many of them

Perhaps Melinda or Belinda or something like Rosalyn or Aislinn and use it as a nick name

Sorry I think it's awful

Yep, in another 20 years or so when there are more Great- Grandma Linda’s about, expect to see a big comeback imo - particularly as it has a pretty sound. Angela, Patricia, Gillian and Susan will likely return at the same time as they have pretty sounds or a variety of nn’s too. Deborah and Pamela as well- although not with the nn’s Deb/Debbie or Pam/Pammy (but maybe I’m wrong and they will be retro/hipster cool - like Barbara with nn Babs 🤣).

Not quite time for a comeback. Lyn just makes me thin of a middle aged woman - i know many. Having said that if you like the name go for it.

I’m over 60 and know many Lindas. It just seems such a dull name, even though the ones I know are anything but dull. I don’t think it’s time for a comeback. At the moment it’s not the ‘right’ sort of old lady name imo.

I'm 64 and many of my school friends were Lindas. Very common name and nobody said it was a lovely name, sorry. Try to imagine how her name will fit when she is 40, not just as a little girl.

I would like to point out that on most of the Spanish speaking world Linda can mean beautiful but more often is a bit more bland and would better be translated as nice or pretty.
Bonita is probably closer

Lyndsey is nicer than Linda and more of that time.

I met a baby Linda just last week and thought that it was a brilliant and very cool name!! Also my beloved aunt's name, though this wasn't the first thing that popped into my mind.