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Belinda

Pronounced /bəˈlɪndə/

Rank in 2024
#1,733
Born in 2024
117
Peak year
1961 · #141
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 117 girls were named Belinda, about 1 in every 13,788.
  • It peaked in 1961 with 3,118 babies, ranked #141.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1889.
  • 72,852 girls have been named Belinda since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Belinda per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 1.0
    Boomers
  4. 0.9
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 207 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 728 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 37,147 babies, 1.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 22,278 babies, 0.87 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,598 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,876 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,990 babies, 0.10 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Belle +‎ -inda, base from various Romance sources such as French belle, Italian bella (“beautiful”), suffix Latinate form of German linde (“soft”) (English linden, lithe). Popularised by Alexander Pope in his poem The Rape of the Lock (1714). The moon is named after a character in Pope's poem.

  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/bəˈlɪndə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Belinda, CC BY-SA 4.0.