Girl · Latin, through Spanish literature
Lucinda
Say it: loo-SIN-duh
Meaning
An elaboration of Lucia, from Latin lux 'light'; Cervantes used it in Don Quixote (1605).
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in England and colonial America from the 1700s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 37,823 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 1,000 girls
- 128 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Famous bearers
- Lucinda Williams, American singer-songwriter
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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