as a First Name
Pet form of Cynthia or, less often, of Lucinda, now very commonly used as a given name in its own right, especially in North America. It has sometimes been taken as a short form of the name of the fairytale heroine Cinderella, which is in fact unrelated (being from French Cendrillon, a derivative of cendre ‘cinders’).
| 173rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 348,538
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Cindy per capita
- 1957
- marked the height of its popularity
99.95%
0.05%
21%
55+
55+
65%
30-54
30-54
8%
13-29
13-29
7%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
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