Name profile

Lucinda

An elaboration of Lucia created by Cervantes for his novel Don Quixote.

PronunciationEnglish /lu.ˈsɪn.də/
Usage languagesDutch, English, Literature, Portuguese
US rank (2025)#1,747

Meaning and history

Lucinda is an elaboration of Lucia that Cervantes created for his novel Don Quixote (1605) and that was later used by Molière in his play The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 137 births, rank #1,574
2007: 166 births, rank #1,424
2008: 183 births, rank #1,339
2009: 166 births, rank #1,414
2010: 191 births, rank #1,253
20112011: 165 births, rank #1,382
2012: 187 births, rank #1,279
2013: 165 births, rank #1,397
2014: 144 births, rank #1,519
2015: 143 births, rank #1,545
20162016: 192 births, rank #1,267
2017: 154 births, rank #1,460
2018: 132 births, rank #1,616
2019: 130 births, rank #1,629
2020: 132 births, rank #1,587
20212021: 126 births, rank #1,652
2022: 108 births, rank #1,870
2023: 107 births, rank #1,865
2024: 121 births, rank #1,681
20252025: 116 births, rank #1,747

Lucinda moved from #832 to #973 for girls between 1986 and 1987. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 1,025 births.