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Cing vs Cinnamon

American parents have registered 2,022 Cinnamons since 1880, against 650 Cings. But in 2025 it was Cing that was commoner, 26 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cing 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 59 years in which either name was published, Cinnamon for 42 years and Cing for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cing Cinnamon
Total US births 6502,022
Most in one year 53202
Babies in 2025 26under 5
Estimated living today 6501,900
Median age today 845
Peak year 20161969
Best rank 3,100th girls698th girls
Rank in 2025 4,987thunranked
First recorded 20051967
Girls / boys 650 / 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 Cinnamons alive today are over 45; half the Cings are over 8. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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