Cinderella vs Cinthya
American parents have registered 1,807 Cinthyas since 1880, against 908 Cinderellas. Cinthya is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Cinderella Cinthya
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 117 years in which either name was published, Cinderella for 66 years and Cinthya for 51 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
- 1894–1970 Cinderella ahead
- 1971–1975 Cinthya ahead
- 1976 Cinderella ahead
- 1977–2017 Cinthya ahead
- 2018–2019 Cinderella ahead
- 2020–2021 Cinthya ahead
- 2022 Cinderella ahead
- 2023–2025 Cinthya ahead
Side by side
| Cinderella | Cinthya | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 908 | 1,807 |
| Most in one year | 25 | 84 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 12 |
| Estimated living today | 480 | 1,800 |
| Median age today | 63 | 25 |
| Peak year | 1922 | 2005 |
| Best rank | 1,682nd girls | 2,180th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 8,362nd |
| First recorded | 1894 | 1966 |
| Girls / boys | 908 / 0 | 1,807 / 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 Cinthyas are over 25. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Cinderella | Cinthya |
|---|---|---|
| France | 150 | 410 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cinderella and Cinthya.