girls:
257.1k births since 1886
#158 (97th percentile)
boys:
771 births since 1946
#3816 (17th percentile)
overall:
257.8k births since 1886
#307 (96th percentile)
The name Cindy is the #307 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 257,838 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 96.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #158 (97.3% percentile) for all time with 257,067 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #3,816 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 771 births since 1946.
Cindy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1946 for boys). Birth data for Cindy is available in 123 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (123 years for girls and 49 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cindy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cindy reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 97.7% percentile (ranked #19) with 9,661 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 9,661 births per million (ranked 97.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cindy ranks #824 for girls (13.0% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cindy reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #628) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 16 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cindy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cindy is pronounced as SIHN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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