Entry № 6324 · Greek origin

Malinda Malinda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Sweet, gentle"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "sweet, gentle".

Malinda is a name of Greek origin, meaning sweet and gentle.

Sweet, gentle — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Malinda

Transliteration: Malinda
Pronunciation: / /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Malinda stands.

Malinda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Malindas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Malinda.

Numerology

The number behind Malinda.

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Malinda reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.