| [ 3 syll. cla-rin-da, cl-ari-nda ] The girl name Clarinda is pronounced KLerIHNDah KEY. Clarinda's origin is Latin, and its use, English. Derived from the word clarus which has the meaning 'clear, bright, famous'. The name is from the combination of Clara with either the suffix '-inda', or else other names such as Belinda or Lucinda. It was first used in literature for a character in Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene (1590,1596), and subsequently adopted by English speakers. Spenser could have created the name from the older Clorinda, known from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (1580). In the 18th century, the name became popular after Robert Burns wrote four poems published as To Clarinda (1787). A variant form of Clarinda is the English Clorinda. See also the related form, the English Clare. Clarinda is not commonly used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2007, within the family of girl names directly related to Clarinda, the English Clare was the most regularly used. Baby names that sound like Clarinda include the German Clarinde and the English Clorinda. KEY: Pronunciation for Clarinda: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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