Girl · English (literary)
Belinda
Say it: beh-LIN-duh
Meaning
Uncertain. It appears in English literature from the late 17th century and was used by Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock (1712); a Germanic origin with lind 'soft, gentle' or 'serpent' has been proposed but is unproven.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
A literary name that peaked in the US in the 1960s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1960s
In the United States
- 72,486 babies given this name since 1889
- At its height in 1961, about 1 in 648 girls
- 130 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Belinda Carlisle, American singer
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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