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Cinderella vs Cinnamon

American parents have registered 2,022 Cinnamons since 1880, against 908 Cinderellas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cinderella against Cinnamon, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cinderella Cinnamon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 110 years in which either name was published, Cinderella for 67 years and Cinnamon for 43 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Cinderella Cinnamon
Total US births 9082,022
Most in one year 25202
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4801,900
Median age today 6345
Peak year 19221969
Best rank 1,682nd girls698th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18941967
Girls / boys 908 / 02,022 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cinderellas alive today are over 63; half the Cinnamons are over 45. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cinderella and Cinnamon.