"Form of Malinda"
The name Malynda is commonly a female name from the "American" origin.
Malynda is a respelling of the older English name Malinda, with y substituted for the i in the second syllable. Malinda appears in United States birth records from the 1880s onward, several decades before Malynda first appears there in 1953. The respelling does not carry a separate meaning or root of its own.
Malinda means "Mild, gentle; Sweet like honey. A combination of Mel and Linda; Beautiful".
The pronunciation of Malynda is muh-LIN-duh.
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