Belinda
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Belinda
Belinda, cousin of Linda and Melinda, enjoyed a brief return to the Top 1000 from 2005 through 2013, only to fall off again in 2014. A name that some may consider a modern spin on the midcentury popularity queen Linda is in fact a classic with deep and fascinating roots. In Babylonian mythology Belinda was the goddess of heaven and earth, and the name later was used for the heroine of Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Rape of the Lock.
One of Belinda's meanings is 'beautiful snake' (coined at a time when snakes were a sacred symbol of wisdom and immortality) and it still does seem to have a certain lingering serpentine charm.
Belinda entered the US popularity lists in 1940, and went on to reach Number 142 in 1961. Both Maria Edgeworth and Anne Rice wrote eponymous novels called Belinda.
Belinda Carlisle was the lead vocalist in "The Go-Go's."
Belinda is also given to boys.
Pronounced buh-LIN-duh.
As of October 2026, Belinda ranked #1819 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #141 in 1961.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,162 | 212 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,267 | 192 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,313 | 182 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,361 | 170 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #1,391 | 161 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #1,373 | 164 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #1,592 | 131 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #1,402 | 155 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,742 | 119 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,689 | 122 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,726 | 117 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,819 | 110 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Belinda for girls
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Belinda on lists
Famous Belindas
- Belinda Jo CarlisleGirl
American lead singer of The Go,Go's
- (Sue) Belinda GiblinGirl
Australian actress
- Belinda Lynette GreenGirl
Australian beauty queen; Miss World 1972
- Belinda PeregrinGirl
Mexican singer
- Belinda LuscombeGirl
Australian journalist
- Belinda BencicGirl
Swiss tennis player
- Belinda MontgomeryGirl
Canadian,American actress and painter
- Belinda HeggenGirl
Australian journalist and news presenter
- Belinda Caroline StronachGirl
Canadian businesswoman and politician
- Belinda StewartGirl
Wilson, English actress
- Belinda Jane EmmettGirl
Australian actress and singer
- Belinda EarlGirl
style director of Marks and Spencer
- Belinda Bauer (born Belinda Sylvia Taubman)Girl
Australian,American actress
- Belinda BauerGirl
British author
- Belinda BalaskiGirl
American actress
- Belinda SinclairGirl
British actress
Belinda in pop culture
- Aunt BelindaGirl
character from "The Sea is All Around"
- Miss Belinda BedeGirl
character in Barbara Pym's novel "Some Tame Gazelle"
- BelindaGirl
one of Bob Cratchit's children (alongside Martha, Peter, and Tiny Tim) in "A Christmas Carol" (1843) by Charles Dickens
- BelindaGirl
Herbert Pocket's hopeless and useless mother in Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861)
- BelindaGirl
niece to Lady Brute in Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy "The Provok'd Wife" (1697)
- BelindaGirl
a society beauty in Pope's "Rape of the Lock" (1712); one of the moons of Uranus is named after this character
- BelindaGirl
cousin to Araminta, an affected lady in love with Bellmour, in Congreve's 1793 comedy "The Old Bachelor"
- Belinda PortmanGirl
heroine of "Belinda," an 1801 novel by Irish writer Maria Edgeworth
- Belinda BlanchardGirl
from the Anne Rice novel "Belinda" (1986)
- Belinda TowersGirl
character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- Belinda ZitoGirl
Opal Koboi's human alias in the series Artemis Fowl
- Lunch Lady BelindaGirl
character in the YouTube series "Most Popular Girls in School"
- BelindaGirl
character on Disney XD's "Kirby Buckets"