girls:
38.2k births since 1880
#698 (88th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1957
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
38.2k births since 1880
#1275 (84th percentile)
The name Lucinda is the #1,275 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,169 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #698 (87.8% percentile) for all time with 38,158 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1957.
Lucinda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1957 for boys).
The name Lucinda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lucinda reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 65.3% percentile (ranked #267) with 489 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 890 births per million (ranked 33.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lucinda ranks #847 for girls (10.6% percentile) with 60 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lucinda reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #664) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1958.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lucinda".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lucinda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lucinda is pronounced as lue-SIHN-duh, which has 3 syllables.
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