Lorinda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Elaboration of }\Lora, with the addition of the productive feminine suffix -inda (compare Belinda, Clarinda, and pLucinda)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Lorinda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 40Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
3,957 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Elaboration of }\Lora, with the addition of the productive feminine suffix -inda (compare Belinda, Clarinda, and pLucinda).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lorinda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,957 | 1 in 84K | 4K | Lorinda | 293 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Lorinda | 43 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Lorinda | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 80K | listed | Lorinda | 71 |
| CA Canada | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Lorinda | 64 |
| AU Australia | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Lorinda | 82 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Lorinda | 18 |
| SG Singapore | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lorinda | 10 |
3,957 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the hanks-first-names-2001 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lorinda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: elaboration of LORA , with the addition of the productive feminine suffix - inda (cf. e.g. BELINDA , CLARINDA , LUCINDA ).
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lorinda Munson Bryantb. 1855USAmerican writer and educator (1855-1933)
- Lorinda Cherryb. 1944USComputer scientist and original Unix team member (1944-2022)
- Lorinda Pantherb. 1963NZAssociation footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lorinda mean, and where does it come from?
- Elaboration of }\Lora, with the addition of the productive feminine suffix -inda (compare Belinda, Clarinda, and pLucinda). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Lorinda?
- In the etymology graph, Laura, Lori and Laurie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Lora.
- Is Lorinda a male or female name?
- Lorinda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- Which countries have the most people named Lorinda?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Lorinda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lorinda. After it come South Africa, Philippines, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lorinda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,957 people named Lorinda in 2020, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lorinda?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lorindaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lorinda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.