Lucinda

Where Lucinda comes from

Derived from Lucia with the suffix -inda, first used by Cervantes in Don Quixote (1605).
— Wiktionary's entry for Lucinda
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #193 among girls — 63 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #153
    88 babies named Lucinda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1953
    Lucinda Williams born
    American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer, songwriter and musician
  4. 1968
    Lucinda Riley born
    Irish writer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Lucinda Williams · American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer, songwriter and musician, born 1953
  • Lucinda Riley · Irish writer, 1968–2021
  • Lucinda Williams · American athletics competitor, born 1937
  • Lucinda Brand · Dutch cyclist, born 1989
  • Lucinda Jenney · American actress, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.