Malinda

Where Malinda comes from

Variant of Melinda, used since the eighteenth century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Malinda
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #261 among girls — 35 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #251
    40 babies named Malinda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1970
    Malinda Williams born
    American actress
  4. 1974
    Malinda Lo born
    American writer of young adult novels
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Melinda.
Namesakes
  • Malinda Williams · American actress, born 1970
  • Malinda Lo · American writer of young adult novels, born 1974
  • Malinda Pushpakumara · Sri Lankan cricketer, born 1987
  • Malinda Warnapura · Sri Lankan cricketer, born 1979
  • Malinda Cramer · American writer, 1844–1906

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.