Linda is the Spanish word for "pretty, beautiful," or alternately from the Old High German lind ("soft, tender, gentle"). The most popular US baby name from 1947 to 1952, peaking at #1 — over 300,000 American girls were named Linda in that span. Linda Ronstadt (born 1946) — 11-time Grammy winner, the highest-paid female rock star of the 1970s. Linda Brown (1943-2018) — third-grader whose father's lawsuit became Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Linda Sarsour — Palestinian-American activist; co-chair of the 2017 Women's March.
Featured throughout late-20th-century American culture; subject of Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams (2013).
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Linda reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.