Lucinda
Lucinda was given to 116 girls in 2025, #1,750 among girls’ names; 38,412 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,200 Americans named Lucinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 45 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lucinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lucinda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lucinda is “a female given name from Latin.”
Derived from Lucia with the suffix -inda, first used by Cervantes in Don Quixote (1605).
/luˈsɪndə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lucinda?
#1,750 among girls’ names, 2025
Lucinda fell from #1,549 in 2015 to #1,750 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 80.1 to 72.2 per million.
1,030 babies in 1957, the peak
Lucinda peaked in 1957, when 1,030 babies were given it (1,025 girls, #272 among girls’ names). The 116 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,750 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,691 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,872 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,880 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,661 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,588 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,638 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,620 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,463 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 143 | #1,549 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 144 | #1,522 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 165 | #1,397 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 187 | #1,280 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,387 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 191 | #1,257 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 166 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,342 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,428 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,579 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,594 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,659 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 128 | #1,523 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,340 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,635 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,612 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 135 | #1,330 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,018 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,458 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,647 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,615 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,565 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,524 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,455 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 136 | #1,243 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 158 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 170 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 156 | #1,032 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 163 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 200 | #832 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 231 | #750 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 228 | #723 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 231 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 244 | #714 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 293 | #620 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 287 | #636 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 265 | #659 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 252 | #645 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 242 | #659 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 287 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 1975 | 319 | #541 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 349 | #504 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 359 | #491 | 0.25 |
| 1972 | 420 | #448 | 0.28 |
| 1971 | 527 | #408 | 0.32 |
| 1970 | 624 | #381 | 0.36 |
| 1969 | 756 | #329 | 0.45 |
| 1968 | 593 | #374 | 0.36 |
| 1967 | 504 | #417 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 522 | #405 | 0.31 |
| 1965 | 613 | #369 | 0.35 |
| 1964 | 689 | #360 | 0.36 |
| 1963 | 679 | #369 | 0.35 |
| 1962 | 721 | #354 | 0.37 |
| 1961 | 812 | #330 | 0.40 |
| 1960 | 808 | #331 | 0.40 |
| 1959 | 823 | #328 | 0.41 |
| 1958 | 899 | #298 | 0.45 |
| 1957 | 1,025 | #272 | 0.50 |
| 1956 | 923 | #294 | 0.46 |
| 1955 | 846 | #300 | 0.43 |
| 1954 | 997 | #264 | 0.51 |
| 1953 | 978 | #260 | 0.52 |
| 1952 | 908 | #265 | 0.49 |
| 1951 | 797 | #278 | 0.44 |
| 1950 | 792 | #272 | 0.46 |
| 1949 | 843 | #265 | 0.49 |
| 1948 | 752 | #279 | 0.44 |
| 1947 | 596 | #319 | 0.34 |
| 1946 | 410 | #375 | 0.26 |
| 1945 | 360 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1944 | 314 | #404 | 0.24 |
| 1943 | 334 | #400 | 0.24 |
| 1942 | 282 | #431 | 0.21 |
| 1941 | 273 | #417 | 0.23 |
| 1940 | 203 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1939 | 169 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1938 | 157 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1937 | 156 | #531 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 128 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1935 | 141 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 132 | #559 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 120 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 128 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 111 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 141 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 159 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 157 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 139 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 163 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1925 | 179 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 164 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 201 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1922 | 184 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 168 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1920 | 201 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1919 | 188 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 185 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 186 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1916 | 215 | #428 | 0.21 |
| 1915 | 182 | #457 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 138 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1913 | 159 | #383 | 0.25 |
| 1912 | 146 | #380 | 0.26 |
| 1911 | 120 | #370 | 0.29 |
| 1910 | 123 | #358 | 0.31 |
| 1909 | 103 | #359 | 0.30 |
| 1908 | 112 | #337 | 0.34 |
| 1907 | 105 | #341 | 0.33 |
| 1906 | 106 | #328 | 0.36 |
| 1905 | 107 | #325 | 0.37 |
| 1904 | 101 | #324 | 0.37 |
| 1903 | 92 | #323 | 0.35 |
| 1902 | 91 | #329 | 0.34 |
| 1901 | 95 | #307 | 0.40 |
| 1900 | 123 | #298 | 0.41 |
| 1899 | 94 | #309 | 0.40 |
| 1898 | 118 | #282 | 0.46 |
| 1897 | 96 | #297 | 0.41 |
| 1896 | 124 | #256 | 0.52 |
| 1895 | 98 | #284 | 0.42 |
| 1894 | 104 | #272 | 0.47 |
| 1893 | 87 | #289 | 0.41 |
| 1892 | 122 | #243 | 0.57 |
| 1891 | 98 | #246 | 0.53 |
| 1890 | 101 | #247 | 0.53 |
| 1889 | 84 | #258 | 0.47 |
| 1888 | 97 | #236 | 0.54 |
| 1887 | 92 | #218 | 0.63 |
| 1886 | 90 | #211 | 0.62 |
| 1885 | 84 | #216 | 0.63 |
| 1884 | 86 | #204 | 0.67 |
| 1883 | 92 | #174 | 0.82 |
| 1882 | 93 | #166 | 0.86 |
| 1881 | 88 | #153 | 1.0 |
| 1880 | 63 | #193 | 0.69 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lucinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lucinda has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lucinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lucinda, and how old are they?
26,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 68% of the 38,412 Americans ever recorded as Lucinda. The median Lucinda alive today is 62 years old; half are between 45 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 28,940 people named Lucinda (28,910 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,418 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,240 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,620 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,760 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lucinda born?
The states with the most babies named Lucinda are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,755 | #2,206 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 2,534 | #2,319 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,219 | #1,326 | 1.0× |
| New York | 2,161 | #1,969 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 2,111 | #933 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,376 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 1,361 | #881 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 1,229 | #1,339 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 1,031 | #1,377 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 803 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Lucinda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lucinda is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lucinda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,978 babies since 1880, Lucinda is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 116 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lucinda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lucinda and names like it
- Compare Lucinda and LucindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLucinda peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lucinda since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Lucinda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Lucinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lucinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.