SOURCE RECORD
The record for Merlinda
Merlinda is recorded as a feminine given name in Cebuano. A user-submitted account proposes a German Merlind variant, while another submitted entry supplies an Albanian usage label without a meaning.
These weak accounts do not justify a universal sea-beauty or wonderful-serpent translation. The exact expansion remains held.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a female given name
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People with the name Merlinda
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Merlinda Bobis
Philippine-Australian writer and academic
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Merlinda Bobis
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Merlinda in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Merlinda
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Erlinda♀Spanish Herlinde: army + soft or tender
- Melinda♀Created from Mel names with an inda ending
- Belinda♀Seventeenth-century name used in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
- Melina·Elaborated Mel; a Greek honey connection is documented
- Merlin·Literary form of Welsh Myrddin
- Fernanda♀Feminine form of Fernando
- Linda♀Soft or tender; also associated with beautiful
- Melissa♀Bee
What rhymes with Merlinda?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Merlinda further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q6819803 — Merlinda (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Merlinda Bobis (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q6819803 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Merlinda (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — Merlinda, user-submitted entries (opens in a new tab)
Actually consulted low-authority suggestions include Merlind variant and an Albanian label without gloss; no accepted scholarly exact-name derivation, so publication is held.