Given name
Deolinda
“God is beautiful”
Deolinda is used as a given name. One Portuguese interpretation is “God is beautiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Portuguese interpretation is “God is beautiful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Portuguese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deolinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 243
- 0 boys · 243 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 482 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deolinda’s family of names
Deolinda has a related form in Deolenda. Deolinda has a related form in Deolynda.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Deolinda
- Deolinda RodriguesAngolan nationalist, heroine, militant, writer, and translator1939–1968
- Deolinda KinzimbaAngolan singer and actressborn 1995
- Deolinda da ConceiçãoMacanese writer1914–1957
- Deolinda GimoMozambican basketball player (born 1987)
- Deolinda Lopes VieiraPortuguese feminist and early-education campaigner1888–1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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