Glinda

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.

Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list

Glinda by the numbers

Its American peak was 142 babies in 1951, making it a 1950s name.

What we can tell you about Glinda

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Glinda. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Glendafair and good; from glen and da24 in the US (2017)
  • Glyndavalley; variant of Glenda with -da suffix
  • Giadajade; the precious stone146 in the US (2017)
  • Ghinawealth, richness13 in the US (2017)
  • Glennavalley; a form of glenn11 in the US (2017)
  • Gildagolden; a form of Gild7 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Glinda

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