Entry № 610 · English origin

Linden Linden — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LIN-den /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Linden tree (Berlin's Unter den Linden)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "linden tree (berlin's unter den linden)".

Linden is from the Old English lind and Old High German linta — the linden tree (also known as lime tree or basswood).

Linden tree (Berlin's Unter den Linden) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Linden
Transliteration
Linden
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɪn.dən /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Linden stands.

Linden does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lindens before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Unter den Linden
Berlin boulevard since 1647.

Names connected to Linden.

The number behind Linden.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Linden reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.