Meaning not yet researched.
Cindy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #19 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #19 in 1957; #1,929 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cindy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,929 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #19.
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Cindy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #19 in 1957 · most girls in one year: 20,272 (1957).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Cindy, making it the 1,929th most common girls’ name of the year, down 271 places from #1,658 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 124 girls named Cindy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #19, reached in 1957. That year also had the most girls given the name: 20,272. For comparison, it was #1,060 in 2015 and #185 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cindy in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 258,065 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 91,808 babies named Cindy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,538 US girls were named Cindy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cindy ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #1,079 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cynthia (713,412 babies since 1880), Cyndi (3,568 babies since 1880), Sindy (2,773 babies since 1880) and Cindi (7,696 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cindee, Sindi and Sendy are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cinderella.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cindee (880), Sindi (618), Sendy (431), Cindia (416), Cendy (333), Cindey (13), Syndy (11), Cindye (6), Zendy (5), Cindya (5), Sindey (5), Cendi (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Cindy is listed as a nickname for Cinderella, Cynthia, Lucinda.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #1,079 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,433 | #549 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,551 | #1,039 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,581 | #911 |
| California | 13 | #1,669 | #612 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2018 | 170 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 2017 | 230 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2016 | 257 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2015 | 249 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2014 | 395 | #711 | — | — |
| 2013 | 342 | #795 | — | — |
| 2012 | 367 | #757 | — | — |
| 2011 | 446 | #640 | — | — |
| 2010 | 553 | #528 | — | — |
| 2009 | 567 | #532 | — | — |
| 2008 | 731 | #433 | — | — |
| 2007 | 820 | #397 | — | — |
| 2006 | 881 | #368 | — | — |
| 2005 | 988 | #325 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,052 | #305 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,160 | #272 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,221 | #258 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,232 | #258 | 5 | #10,863 |
| 2000 | 1,244 | #263 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,333 | #236 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,292 | #236 | 8 | #6,963 |
| 1997 | 1,421 | #206 | 8 | #6,715 |
| 1996 | 1,497 | #195 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,498 | #199 | 7 | #7,119 |
| 1994 | 1,507 | #196 | 12 | #4,842 |
| 1993 | 1,642 | #176 | 14 | #4,258 |
| 1992 | 1,671 | #183 | 19 | #3,355 |
| 1991 | 1,612 | #184 | 12 | #4,530 |
| 1990 | 1,566 | #187 | 15 | #3,807 |
| 1989 | 1,566 | #177 | 21 | #2,922 |
| 1988 | 1,558 | #179 | 18 | #2,984 |
| 1987 | 1,424 | #194 | 19 | #2,740 |
| 1986 | 1,447 | #185 | 26 | #2,173 |
| 1985 | 1,594 | #174 | 17 | #2,850 |
| 1984 | 1,541 | #179 | 14 | #3,129 |
| 1983 | 1,548 | #177 | 16 | #2,807 |
| 1982 | 1,729 | #167 | 17 | #2,726 |
| 1981 | 1,747 | #163 | 14 | #3,061 |
| 1980 | 1,866 | #150 | 10 | #3,896 |
| 1979 | 2,087 | #136 | 13 | #3,199 |
| 1978 | 2,041 | #134 | 13 | #3,094 |
| 1977 | 2,159 | #132 | 12 | #3,228 |
| 1976 | 2,262 | #120 | 8 | #4,070 |
| 1975 | 2,505 | #112 | 15 | #2,655 |
| 1974 | 2,852 | #103 | 16 | #2,478 |
| 1973 | 3,280 | #92 | 17 | #2,325 |
| 1972 | 3,737 | #80 | 8 | #3,680 |
| 1971 | 4,904 | #70 | 21 | #1,994 |
| 1970 | 5,049 | #72 | 18 | #2,132 |
| 1969 | 4,955 | #74 | 23 | #1,739 |
| 1968 | 5,238 | #67 | 16 | #2,045 |
| 1967 | 5,781 | #59 | 12 | #2,373 |
| 1966 | 6,794 | #56 | 14 | #2,150 |
| 1965 | 7,777 | #53 | 23 | #1,629 |
| 1964 | 9,322 | #47 | 20 | #1,800 |
| 1963 | 11,090 | #37 | 23 | #1,664 |
| 1962 | 12,297 | #34 | 30 | #1,427 |
| 1961 | 13,388 | #33 | 20 | #1,829 |
| 1960 | 14,953 | #30 | 32 | #1,407 |
| 1959 | 16,973 | #25 | 33 | #1,364 |
| 1958 | 16,585 | #25 | 20 | #1,777 |
| 1957 | 20,272 | #19 | 35 | #1,320 |
| 1956 | 9,978 | #37 | 18 | #1,898 |
| 1955 | 5,588 | #79 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 1954 | 4,714 | #91 | 6 | #3,509 |
| 1953 | 3,825 | #99 | 6 | #3,485 |
| 1952 | 2,546 | #140 | — | — |
| 1951 | 2,031 | #154 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,467 | #185 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,261 | #212 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 1948 | 1,163 | #213 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,133 | #223 | 7 | #3,129 |
| 1946 | 677 | #284 | 5 | #3,604 |
| 1945 | 332 | #389 | — | — |
| 1944 | 264 | #446 | — | — |
| 1943 | 237 | #477 | — | — |
| 1942 | 225 | #496 | — | — |
| 1941 | 104 | #690 | — | — |
| 1940 | 73 | #834 | — | — |
| 1939 | 63 | #883 | — | — |
| 1938 | 53 | #974 | — | — |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,250 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,567 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,136 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).