Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Loucinda isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Loucinda has a related form in Lucinda. The history of Lucinda gives this family its wider story. Lucinda appears in Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The related form Lucinde was used by Molière and later by Friedrich von Schlegel, while Lucinda became established in England in the eighteenth century.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Loucinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 236
- 0 boys · 236 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 14 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 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 255 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.
Loucinda’s family of names
In English usage, Loucinda has a related form in Lucinda.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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