Lucinda
Lucinda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 118 births. Its best rank was 153rd, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1180.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19571,025 births
- Best rank
- #153in 1881
- Since 1880
- 38,281people given the name
The story in the numbers
38,281 girls have been named Lucinda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 1,025 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 23%. It has spent 108 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lucinda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 869 | |
| 1890s | 1,042 | |
| 1900s | 1,035 | |
| 1910s | 1,642 | |
| 1920s | 1,715 | |
| 1930s | 1,383 | |
| 1940s | 4,367 | |
| 1950s | 8,988 | |
| 1960s | 6,697 | |
| 1970s | 3,644 | |
| 1980s | 2,203 | |
| 1990s | 1,111 | |
| 2000s | 1,392 | |
| 2010s | 1,603 | |
| 2020s | 590 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Lucinda was the 272nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Lucinda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cathrinepeak 1956
- Nenapeak 1963
- Malindapeak 1969
- Tenapeak 1962
- Ellenpeak 1951
- Pattiepeak 1958
- Janiepeak 1947
- Geniepeak 1982
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.