Etymology

Latinized short form of compound names ending in -lind(e)"tender, soft", such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde; later associated with "beautiful". The name became known through 19th century literature and the opera Linda di Chamounix (1842).

Usage notes

Linda was the most popular name for women born in the U.S. 1947-1952. In continental Europe, the frequency graph of Linda is a mirror image of the English one, with popularity peaks in the 19th century and in the end of the 20th century.

Quotations

• 1752 Countess D'Aulnoi, Thomas Parnell: The Court of Queen Mab. Tales of Fairies. London,M.Cooper, MDCCLII.page 328:

  The Orange-Tree stood in a Wood which belong'd to a Princess, who liv'd in a magnificent Palace not far off, and us'd to walk there. This Princess was young, beautiful and witty, and her Name Linda.

• 1946 Jack Lawrence: Linda ( a popular song ) :

  When I go to sleep

  I never count sheep

  I count all the charms about Linda.

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Proper noun

1. , cognate to Linda.

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Etymology

The name Linda was already known in Estonia when Fr.R.Kreutzwald chose it to his Kalevipoeg (1861), based on the assumption that the place name Lindanise (Tallinn) would derive from the given name Linda.

Proper noun

1. The mother of Kalevipoeg in the Estonian national epic.
2. .

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1. of origin.

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