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I've only really known one Belinda, who was the cutest little scamp imaginable, and then there are the card-playing heroine of the Rape of the Lock and, greatest of them all, she who had the realio-trulio live pet dragon ...

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I've always thought it a bit risky from a nn point of view: a friend had a Belinda mother who was known as Bill! People seem to think of it as frilly: surely it's less frilly than Isabella! But all the Linda associations ... Linda is pretty too, but more dated. I just don't know if I'd ever use it myself as a fn, but as a mn it would be excellent.

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Lyn/Lin names in general: Belinda, then Lyndall, Linden (f), Lindsey (f), and the rest far behind. Linda would be next, I think.