Lucinda is a female given name of Latin origin, meaning light.^[1] It can be abbreviated as Lucy or Cindy. The name, which originated as an elaboration of the name Lucia, was first used for a character in Miguel Cervantes's 1605 work Don Quixote but was in use primarily in works of fiction in the 17th century. Variant Lucinde was used for a character by Molière in the 1665 farce Le Médecin malgré lui and later by Friedrich von Schlegel in the 1799 novel Lucinde. The name was well-used for girls in England by the 1700s and has been used since that time in the Anglosphere.^[2]

The name may refer to:

People

• Lucinda Armstrong Hall, Australian actress
• Lucinda Ballard (1906–1993), American costume designer
• Lucinda Banister Chandler (1828–1911), American social reformer, author
• Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, Scottish chef and writer
• Lucinda Collins, Australian pianist
• Lucinda Cowden (born 1965), actress on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Lucinda Creighton (born 1980), Irish politician
• Lucinda Foote, American student
• Lucinda Barbour Helm (1839–1897), American author, editor, women's religious activist
• Lucinda Jenney (born 1954), American actress
• Lucinda Pullar (born 1998), commonly known as Lulu Pullar, Australian rules footballer and former soccer player
• Lucinda Riley (1965–2021), Northern Irish author and actress
• Lucinda Todd (1903–1996), African-American teacher and education activist
• Lucinda Williams (born 1953), American rock, folk and country music singer and songwriter
• Lucinda Williams (athlete) (born 1937), American athlete
• Lucinda Sanders (born 1954), commonly known as Lucy Sanders, CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology
• Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (1814–1900), American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, philanthropist

Fictional characters

• Lucinda Walsh, a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns
• Lucinda Embry, a haunted girl who predicted apocalyptic events through numerology in the film Knowing
• Lucinda Leplastrier, the heroine from Peter Carey's 1988 novel Oscar and Lucinda
• Lucinda Merrill, wife of protagonist Neddy Merrill in John Cheever's 1964 short story "The Swimmer"
• Lucinda, a fictional witch character in the television series Sofia the First
• Lucinda Allen, RJ's childhood crush, and later, his girlfriend, in the novel Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
• Lucinda Perriweather, a well-meaning but misguided and often unhelpful fairy who gave the "gift" of obedience to Ella in the film Ella Enchanted
• Lucinda Koppelthorn, a character from Metal Gear Acid 2
• Lucinda "Lucy" Abernathy, the female protagonist, and love interest of Gregory Bridgerton, in the eighth and final book in the Bridgerton Series, "On the Way to the Wedding"

Songs

• "Lucinda", by Tom Waits from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
• "Lucinda", by The Knack from the album Get the Knack
• "Lucinda", by post punk industrial funk band A Certain Ratio, from the album Sextet

Others

• Lucinda, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Lucinda (steam yacht), a steam yacht of the Queensland Government

References