Linda

• (female given name): Lynda

Latinised short form of Germanic compound names ending in -lind, -linde (“tender, soft”) (English -inda), such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde, and earlier names such as Old High German Irmilinda and Old Dutch Frithelind, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz (“gentle, mild”), whence also Old English līþe (“gentle, mild, pliable, limber”) (English lithe). Later misassociated with unrelated Spanish linda (“beautiful”). The name became known through 19th century literature and the opera Linda di Chamounix (1842). More at lithe.

The coordination language is named after Linda Lovelace, a reference to the programming language Ada, itself named after Ada Lovelace.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪndə/
• Rhymes: -ɪndə

Linda

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 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.

2. A census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States.
3. (computer languages) A coordination language for parallel computing environments.
   • 2012, Evan Tick, Giancarlo Succi, editors, Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:

     The aim of this paper is to analyse the concept of extending the parallel logic programming paradigm with Linda-like operations, thus facilitating distributed data storage, access and management.

• Linda was the most popular name for women born in the U.S. 1947–1952.

• Lindie, Lindy, Lyn (pet forms)

Variant of Linde.

Linda (plural Lindas)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Linda is the 38103^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 582 individuals. Linda is most common among White (77.32%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Linda”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 439.

• Linda Vista

• Dilan, Ladin, Landi, Ndali, iland, nidal

Derogatory use named after the character Linda, popularized by vlogger PapaVince Davao.

Linda

1. a female given name

Linda

1. (derogatory) a Karen; any person, especially female, exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Linda.

• Nilda

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪnda]

Linda f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Linda

Linda

1. a female given name of Germanic origin

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪn.daː/

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• Hyphenation: Lin‧da
• Rhymes: -ɪndaː

Linda f

1. a female given name

The Germanic name Linda was already known in Estonia when Fr.R.Kreutzwald chose it in his Kalevipoeg (1861), based on the assumption that the place name Lindanise (Tallinn) would derive from the given name Linda. By folk etymology associated with Estonian lind (“bird”) and lendama (“to fly”).

Linda

1. The mother of Kalevipoeg in the Estonian national epic.
2. a female given name

• Popular in the beginning of the 20th century.

• Inna
• Lenna

Linda

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Linda: Linduson
• daughter of Linda: Lindudóttir

Of Germanic origin, cognate with English Linda. First recorded in Finland in 1833.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlindɑ/, [ˈlindɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -indɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Lin‧da

Linda

1. a female given name

• Linda is the 119^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 6,385 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,497 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• IPA^(key): /lin.da/

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Linda f

1. a female given name of Germanic origin

Originates as a short form of names such as Dietlinde and Sieglinde. Secondarily augmented by Spanish linda and Portuguese linda (“beautiful, pretty”).

Linda

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages

Of Germanic origin, compare English Linda.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlindɒ]
• Hyphenation: Lin‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Linda

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Linda

• Lindácska, Lindus (diminutives)

• Rhymes: -ɪnta

Linda f

1. a female given name

First recorded as a given name of Latvians at the end of the 19th century. From Estonian Linda, and also of Germanic origin.

Linda f

1. a female given name

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Linda was the only given name of 7434 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Of Germanic origin, cognate with English Linda. First recorded in Norway in the 19th century.

Linda

1. a female given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 15 064 females with the given name Linda living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlinda/

Linda f (genitive singular Lindy, nominative plural Lindy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• Lindička
• Linduška

• “Linda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Of Germanic origin, cognate with English Linda. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1833.

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Linda c (genitive Lindas)

1. a female given name

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 51 300 females with the given name Linda living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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