Cindy
About 258,065 American babies have been named Cindy since 1886, most of them around 1957. In 2025 it ranked 1,927th. About 226,000 Cindys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cindy boys named Cindy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 258,065
- Estimated living today
- 226,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 19th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,927th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 257,294 / 771
How old the living Cindys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 258,065 babies given the name since 1886, about 226,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 5,200 of them are children and 85,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Shortened from Lucinda and Cinderella. In the 20th century adopted as a pet form of Cynthia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cindys
- Cindy Crawford (born 1966)American model
- Cindy Sherman (born 1954)American photographer
- Cindy Kiro (born 1958)New Zealand Governor-General, former academic and social justice advocate
- Cindy McCain (born 1954)community organizer
- Cindy Williams (1947–2023)American actress and producer
- Cindy Klassen (born 1979)Canadian speed skater
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (born 1959)American politician
- Cindy Sheehan (born 1957)American antiwar activist
People named Cindy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cindy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cindy is most concentrated in Wyoming (1.7×), Montana (1.7×), Idaho (1.6×), Utah (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Cindy peaked:
Cindy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Cindy | 64,120 | 26th |
| Belgium girls | Cindy | 684 | 79th |
| England and Wales girls | Cindy | 545 | 1,040th |
| Italy girls | Cindy | 371 | — |
| Norway girls | Cindy | 226 | 336th |
| Scotland girls | Cindy | 116 | 267th |
| Ireland girls | Cindy | 85 | 555th |
| New Zealand girls | Cindy | 65 | 92nd |
| Poland girls | Cindy | 24 birth registrations | 325th |
| France boys | Cindy | 15 | 2,917th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Cindy | 3 | 372nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cindy: rank by region
In 2008, Cindy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Cindy | 444 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Cindy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Cindy | 9,645 | 10,292 |
| Finland girls | Cindy | 202 | 239 |
| the Netherlands boys | Cindy | — | 132 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Cindy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 514 women called Cindy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Cindy | 34 | 0.058 | 1,534 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Cindy | 29 | 0.052 | 1,476 |
| Girona | Cindy | 17 | 0.041 | 1,458 |
| Guadalajara | Cindy | 5 | 0.036 | 1,402 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Cindy | 35 | 0.034 | 1,733 |
| Balears, Illes | Cindy | 20 | 0.032 | 1,778 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Cindy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.