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When my daughter was born (in 2008) we wanted to give her an uncommon but not a strange name so we decided to name her Melinda. I think it's adorable to call her by her first and middle name; Melinda Piper.

I have an aunt named Melinda. Everyone mostly calls her by her nickname, though.

I'm named Melinda and was born in 1980. My parents named me after my Uncle Mel and Aunt Linda. They also thought they might call me Mindy (they liked Mork & Mindy, the Robin Williams TV show from that time), but everyone always called me Melinda until college. Since then I've been nicknamed Mel by a few people. I like the meaning behind why my parents named me this and that it's a different name while still being easy to pronounce and spell.

Nicknames for Melinda: | Edit

Mindy, Mel, Lindy, Mandy, Minda, Linda, Melli

Meanings and history of the name Melinda: | Edit

Greek - Gentle One

Famous real-life people named Melinda: | Edit

Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates
Melinda Clarke, American actress
Melinda Doolittle, American singer/American Idol contestant
Melinda Saxe, American magician
Melinda Culea, American actress

Melinda in song, story & screen: | Edit

Melinda Gordon, lead character of Ghost Whisperer, portraid by Jennifer Love Hewitt
Melinda Warren, ancestor of the Charmed Ones on Charmed
Prudence Melinda "Melinda" Halliwell, character of the televison show "Charmed", the only daughter of Leo Wyatt and Piper Halliwell, youngest child of her brothers; Wyatt and Chris.
"Face of Melinda" a song by Opeth
Melinda Sordino, the main character of the YA novel 'Speak' by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda and Melinda, a 2005 American film
Melinda Warner, Medical Examiner on Law and Order:SVU
Melinda Bobbin, a character in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling