Details for the forename Lucinda

SEARCH FOR A PERSONAL NAME

Lucinda (female)


Pet Name(s):	Lucy (F) Sinda (F) Sindy (F)
Derivative(s):	Cindy (F)
Derivative of:	Lucia (F)
Can be spelt:	Lussinda (F)

Source(s):	The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:	Spanish, from Luc(ia) + -inda, first found in "Don Quixote" by Cervantes (1605). See also Clarinda (1596) and Belinda (1697). Lucinda has been popular in England from 18^th century but it occurs only rarely in the 1841 Census of Aberdeenshire.