Given name
Lucinda
Lucinda adds a lyrical ending to Lucia and has a history in European literature.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Lucinda is used as a derivative of Lucia.
The 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.
Lucinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38,412
- 11 boys · 38,401 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 1,030 babies
- 2025
- 116
- #1,750 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −22%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 116 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,750 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 21.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,025 in 1957. In 2025, Ohio had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (10). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 28,940 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.
Lucinda’s family of names
Lucinda has an affectionate form in Cindy. Lucinda developed from Lucia. Lucinda has a related form in Lucy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lucinda
- Lucinda WilliamsAmerican rock, folk, blues, and country music singer, songwriter and musicianborn 1953
- Lucinda RileyIrish writer (1965–2021)
- Lucinda WilliamsAmerican athletics competitor (born 1937)
- Lucinda BrandDutch cyclistborn 1989
- Lucinda GreenBritish equestrianborn 1953
- Lucinda JenneyAmerican actressborn 1954
- Lucinda FredericksAustralian equestrianborn 1965
- Lucinda WhittyAustralian sailorborn 1989
- Lucinda ChildsAmerican choreographer and dancer (born 1940)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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