Entry № 6074 · Latin origin

Lucinda Lucinda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ loo-SIN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Light (Lucinda Williams, 3 Grammys; Cervantes's heroine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Latin)

A name that means "light (lucinda williams, 3 grammys; cervantes's heroine)".

Lucinda is an elaborated form of Lucia — from the Latin lux ("light") — first coined by Cervantes in Don Quixote (1605) for the character Lucinda, and popularized in English literature thereafter. Lucinda Williams (born 1953) — American singer-songwriter; three Grammy Awards; her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album and is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; Time magazine named her "America's best songwriter" (2002); a figure in the Americana / alt-country movement.

Light (Lucinda Williams, 3 Grammys; Cervantes's heroine) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Lucinda
Transliteration
Lucinda
Pronunciation
/ luːˈsɪn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lucinda stands.

Lucinda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lucindas before her.

Real people
Lucinda Williams
American Grammy songwriter.
born 1953
Lucinda Childs
American postmodern choreographer.
born 1940
Lucinda Riley
Irish author.
1965 – 2021
In fiction
Lucinda
Cervantes's Don Quixote.
1605

Names connected to Lucinda.

The number behind Lucinda.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lucinda reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.