Belinda
A girls’ name of Old German origin, meaning beautiful serpent or beautiful bright one.
Belinda by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Belinda. In the US, 169 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 3,115 babies in 1961, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Belinda. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean beauty
Like Belinda, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean light
Like Belinda, each of these has light in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Belinda
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