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