Given name & surname
Sinda
Sinda is used as a given name and a surname. Sinda is connected with Sindy.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sinda is a short form of Gumersinda. An origin associated with Gumersinda is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English use, Sinda is used as a variant of Sindy.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Sinda is an affectionate form of 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
Sinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 308
- 0 boys · 308 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 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 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 303 as a first name in 2020; 120 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sinda’s family of names
Sinda is an affectionate form of Lucinda. Sinda has a related form in Sindy. Sinda is a short form of Gumersinda.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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