Clarinda
About Clarinda
A poetic name first used in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" in 1596, it had a literary vogue in the 18th century, especially favored by Robert Burns. "inda" names--Melinda, Belinda, Linda" are not particularly in right now.
Pronounced kluh-RIN-duh.
As of October 2026, Clarinda ranked #17719 in US births in 2006 SSA, peaked at #688 in 1880.
Editor's take: The name Clarinda is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright, clear".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Clarinda on lists
Famous Clarindas
- Clarinda Maria Sinnige
Dutch field hockey player
- Clarinda
pen name of a 17th century Peruvian female poet
Clarinda in pop culture
- Clarinda
character in Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene
- Clarinda
name given by Scottish poet Robert Burns to Agnes Maclehose
- Clarinda
a major character in The Virtuoso, a play first produced in 1676
- Clarinda
a major character in The Lovers' Progress, an early 17th,century play
- Clarinda
a character in The Deserving Favourite, another early 17th,century play
- Clarinda
a character in the play The Sea Voyage, licensed for performance in 1622
- "Clarinda
" 1948 novel by Vicki Baum, also published as Headless Angel
- Lady Clarinda
character in Thomas Love Peacock's 1831 novel Crotchet Castle