linda
n. countablen. a common name for a woman. It was very popular in English-speaking countries in the middle of the 20th century.
n. a female given name of Germanic origin, meaning 'soft' or 'tender', or derived from the Spanish word for 'beautiful'.
My aunt Linda lives in a small house by the sea.
The manager introduced Linda as the new head of the marketing department during the morning meeting.
While the name Linda peaked in popularity during the late 1940s, it remains a classic example of a name that defined an entire generation of women in the United States.
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.
Variant of Linde.
As a proper noun, it is always capitalized and typically used without an article unless referring to a specific person among others of the same name.