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Lucinda (F)>

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 18th century but it occurs only rarely in the 1841 Census of Aberdeenshire.