Belinda
Just 63 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it this century: most Poles have never met one. The name is Latin, read as "bright serpent".
Belinda Pronunciation
Belinda is pronounced be-LEEN-dah (/bɛˈlinda/).
What Belinda means
Where Belinda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Belinda reaches back to Latin, where "bella" means beautiful, and that sense of beauty is the meaning most people attach to the name today. An older reading pulls a different way: "bright serpent," from a Germanic element for snake. Both meanings ride along with the name. The beautiful one won out.
Alexander Pope gave Belinda her most famous outing. In his 1712 poem "The Rape of the Lock," Belinda is the heroine whose stolen curl sets the whole mock-epic spinning. Later, Maria Edgeworth titled her 1801 novel simply "Belinda." English literature kept the name in circulation for two centuries before it traveled further.
For a Polish family, Belinda arrives without diminutives or variants. It stays whole on the class register, one word, no softening. The Latin sense holds. Belinda means beautiful.
How many people are named Belinda
1 in 357839 women in Poland is named Belinda. 63 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4598 among female names.
Belinda as a middle name
Belinda is a first name for 63 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1444th, between Anda (24) and Bernada (24).
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#1442 Akter24
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#1443 Anda24
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#1444 Belinda24
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#1445 Bernada24
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#1446 Bona24