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Cinda

Girls' name

Short form of Lucinda

Cinda has been given to 4,590 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 218 recorded.

Babies named Cinda, 2011

1 in 610,000

Cinda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cinda: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Lucinda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cinda means

Cinda is a short form of Lucinda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cinda is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪn.də/ for Cinda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucinda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,590 girls were recorded with the name Cinda between 1880 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 218 in 1953; its best national rank was #599 in 1953.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cinda?

Cinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cinda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cinda was born before 1955 — so the typical Cinda is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,298
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (1,879).

Is Cinda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (218)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#599
1953

Spellings of Cinda

Cinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 41.7% against Cinda's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Cinda was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 55,470 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 12,500
  2. 2Iowa1 in 20,000
  3. 3Kansas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 20,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 33,333
  8. 8Oregon1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cinda around the world

Where Cinda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1982–2011
    #4,672
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Cinda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#599
1953
Peak year
1953
218 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
4,590
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cinda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RandaCindiCinthiaKendaHindaCintiaCinthyaFondaCingBrindaMyrandaLorindaJacindaMandaTondaVondaWondaCindieVandaLondaChandaHerlindaMindaBrianda

Names with a curve like Cinda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cinda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CathieRandyPamellaSherrylKaranCheryleCheryllFranSuzanBonnyLynDrema

Sibling names for Cinda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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