Cindy
Cindy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 123 births. Its best rank was 19th, in 1957.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1230.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 195720,272 births
- Best rank
- #19in 1957
- Since 1886
- 257,194people given the name
The story in the numbers
257,194 girls have been named Cindy in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 20,272 births — 0.99% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 123 births in 2024, against 20,272 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 36%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cindy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 35 | |
| 1910s | 81 | |
| 1920s | 117 | |
| 1930s | 277 | |
| 1940s | 5,470 | |
| 1950s | 83,980 | |
| 1960s | 91,594 | |
| 1970s | 30,877 | |
| 1980s | 16,020 | |
| 1990s | 15,039 | |
| 2000s | 9,896 | |
| 2010s | 3,181 | |
| 2020s | 607 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Cindy was the 19th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Cindy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Roxanepeak 1956
- Robbinpeak 1959
- Cherylannpeak 1958
- Cindiepeak 1957
- Cindipeak 1958
- Terripeak 1959
- Debbipeak 1958
- Leesapeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.