Lacinda
Feminine · “Light”
Lacinda puts an American front on a literary name, and the literary name is itself an invention — one of a small group of women's names that can be traced to a specific book by a specific author who needed something that sounded Latin.
How old is the name Lacinda?
Lacinda first appears in US birth records in 1943 — 82 years ago. The typical Lacinda alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 800 people named Lacinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lacinda most popular?
Lacinda peaked in 1963, reaching #1867 nationally. See the whole 1963 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Lucia to Lacinda
The story of Lacinda
The light in the name is the part that has a history worth telling. Lucy's feast falls in the darkest part of the year, and before the calendar was reformed it fell on what was reckoned the shortest day — which is why she is a festival of light in Scandinavia, where candles and a white dress mark the turn of the winter. The legend attached to her is grimmer and explains the other half of her reputation: she is invoked for diseases of the eyes, because the story has her eyes taken out, and medieval painters showed her carrying them on a dish. A name meaning light, a feast at midwinter, and a patron of sight — the pieces fit together too neatly to be accidental, and the neatness is probably the legend's doing.
Meaningscholars disagree
Light, if the Lucy family is behind it
Lucinda was built on Lucia, from the Latin word for light, and the reading travels down to this spelling if that is the route. The front syllable adds nothing of its own — it is an American prefix, attached to an existing name, and carries no meaning in any language.
How the name formed
- Lucia
- Lucinda
- Lacinda
Related forms: Lucinda · Lucia · Lucinda
Pronouncing Lacinda
luh-SIN-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The c says s because it stands before an i, which is one of the few consistent rules in English spelling.
Nicknames for Lacinda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1943
- Most girls named
- 196339 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1867reached in 1963
- Change vs 1992
- −64.3%5 in 1996, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lacinda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lucinda in Spanish — related form
- Lucia in Italian — related form
- Lucinda in Portuguese — related form
Lacindas among us
people named Lacinda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lacinda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It has a strong, familiar short form that sounds nothing like the full name.
- The rhythm is balanced and easy, and nobody stumbles over it.
- It is rare while being built entirely from familiar pieces.
- Lucinda is the name most people will hear, and they will correct the first vowel.
- The front syllable carries no meaning, so half the name is decoration.
- It places its bearer in a particular American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lacindas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Lacinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lacinda in 2025?
- Lacinda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lacinda with classmates?
- Lacinda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
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