Meaning not yet researched.
Lucinda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #153 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #153 in 1881; #1,750 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lucinda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,750 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #153.
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Lucinda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 girls in 2025. Peak: #153 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 1,025 (1957).
In 2025, 116 US girls were named Lucinda, making it the 1,750th most common girls’ name of the year, down 59 places from #1,691 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 121 girls named Lucinda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #153, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,025, in 1957. For comparison, it was #1,549 in 2015 and #272 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lucinda in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 63 babies with the name. In all, 38,412 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 8,999 babies named Lucinda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,318 US girls were named Lucinda; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 192. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,856 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lucinda ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #626 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Loucinda, Lucynda and Lucenda are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cindy, Lou, Lu and Lucy.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loucinda (236), Lucynda (66), Lucenda (41), Luecinda (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 7 | #626 | #817 |
| Indiana | 7 | #881 | #500 |
| Ohio | 10 | #933 | #1,392 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,301 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,326 | #1,563 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,339 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,377 | #1,343 |
| New York | 6 | #1,969 | #1,706 |
| California | 9 | #2,206 | #1,784 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,319 | #1,679 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 2015 | 143 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2014 | 144 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 2013 | 165 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2012 | 187 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 2010 | 191 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2009 | 166 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2003 | 128 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1999 | 135 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1991 | 136 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1990 | 158 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1989 | 170 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1988 | 156 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1987 | 163 | #973 | — | — |
| 1986 | 200 | #832 | — | — |
| 1985 | 231 | #750 | — | — |
| 1984 | 228 | #723 | — | — |
| 1983 | 231 | #722 | — | — |
| 1982 | 244 | #714 | — | — |
| 1981 | 293 | #620 | — | — |
| 1980 | 287 | #636 | — | — |
| 1979 | 265 | #659 | — | — |
| 1978 | 252 | #645 | — | — |
| 1977 | 242 | #659 | — | — |
| 1976 | 287 | #572 | — | — |
| 1975 | 319 | #541 | — | — |
| 1974 | 349 | #504 | — | — |
| 1973 | 359 | #491 | — | — |
| 1972 | 420 | #448 | — | — |
| 1971 | 527 | #408 | — | — |
| 1970 | 624 | #381 | — | — |
| 1969 | 756 | #329 | — | — |
| 1968 | 593 | #374 | — | — |
| 1967 | 504 | #417 | — | — |
| 1966 | 522 | #405 | — | — |
| 1965 | 613 | #369 | — | — |
| 1964 | 689 | #360 | — | — |
| 1963 | 679 | #369 | — | — |
| 1962 | 721 | #354 | — | — |
| 1961 | 812 | #330 | — | — |
| 1960 | 808 | #331 | — | — |
| 1959 | 823 | #328 | — | — |
| 1958 | 899 | #298 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 1957 | 1,025 | #272 | 5 | #4,326 |
| 1956 | 923 | #294 | — | — |
| 1955 | 846 | #300 | — | — |
| 1954 | 997 | #264 | — | — |
| 1953 | 978 | #260 | — | — |
| 1952 | 908 | #265 | — | — |
| 1951 | 797 | #278 | — | — |
| 1950 | 792 | #272 | — | — |
| 1949 | 843 | #265 | — | — |
| 1948 | 752 | #279 | — | — |
| 1947 | 596 | #319 | — | — |
| 1946 | 410 | #375 | — | — |
| 1945 | 360 | #371 | — | — |
| 1944 | 314 | #404 | — | — |
| 1943 | 334 | #400 | — | — |
| 1942 | 282 | #431 | — | — |
| 1941 | 273 | #417 | — | — |
| 1940 | 203 | #471 | — | — |
| 1939 | 169 | #517 | — | — |
| 1938 | 157 | #545 | — | — |
| 1937 | 156 | #531 | — | — |
| 1936 | 128 | #587 | — | — |
| 1935 | 141 | #542 | — | — |
| 1934 | 132 | #559 | — | — |
| 1933 | 120 | #590 | — | — |
| 1932 | 128 | #582 | — | — |
| 1931 | 111 | #629 | — | — |
| 1930 | 141 | #577 | — | — |
| 1929 | 159 | #542 | — | — |
| 1928 | 157 | #562 | — | — |
| 1927 | 139 | #603 | — | — |
| 1926 | 163 | #556 | — | — |
| 1925 | 179 | #532 | — | — |
| 1924 | 164 | #572 | — | — |
| 1923 | 201 | #488 | — | — |
| 1922 | 184 | #516 | — | — |
| 1921 | 168 | #549 | — | — |
| 1920 | 201 | #485 | — | — |
| 1919 | 188 | #490 | — | — |
| 1918 | 185 | #499 | — | — |
| 1917 | 186 | #480 | — | — |
| 1916 | 215 | #428 | — | — |
| 1915 | 182 | #457 | — | — |
| 1914 | 138 | #467 | — | — |
| 1913 | 159 | #383 | — | — |
| 1912 | 146 | #380 | — | — |
| 1911 | 120 | #370 | — | — |
| 1910 | 123 | #358 | — | — |
| 1909 | 103 | #359 | — | — |
| 1908 | 112 | #337 | — | — |
| 1907 | 105 | #341 | — | — |
| 1906 | 106 | #328 | — | — |
| 1905 | 107 | #325 | — | — |
| 1904 | 101 | #324 | — | — |
| 1903 | 92 | #323 | — | — |
| 1902 | 91 | #329 | — | — |
| 1901 | 95 | #307 | — | — |
| 1900 | 123 | #298 | — | — |
| 1899 | 94 | #309 | — | — |
| 1898 | 118 | #282 | — | — |
| 1897 | 96 | #297 | — | — |
| 1896 | 124 | #256 | — | — |
| 1895 | 98 | #284 | — | — |
| 1894 | 104 | #272 | — | — |
| 1893 | 87 | #289 | — | — |
| 1892 | 122 | #243 | — | — |
| 1891 | 98 | #246 | — | — |
| 1890 | 101 | #247 | — | — |
| 1889 | 84 | #258 | — | — |
| 1888 | 97 | #236 | — | — |
| 1887 | 92 | #218 | — | — |
| 1886 | 90 | #211 | — | — |
| 1885 | 84 | #216 | — | — |
| 1884 | 86 | #204 | — | — |
| 1883 | 92 | #174 | — | — |
| 1882 | 93 | #166 | — | — |
| 1881 | 88 | #153 | — | — |
| 1880 | 63 | #193 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).