Linah
- Gender
- Girl
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Linah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Is Linah a girl's or a boy's name?
Linah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Linah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Linah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2006, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Linah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Linah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Linah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Selah, Hadassah, Salem, Zaniyah, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Sariyah, Safa, Zariah, Zaliyah, Zayla, Nusaybah
Names related to Linah
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Linah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/linah, updated 20 October 2026.