Cinderella

Girls' name

Little ashes

Cinderella has been given to 908 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1922, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Cinderella, 2024

1 in 669,000

Cinderella over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cinderella: meaning, origin, and history

Little ashes

coinages

What Cinderella means

Cinderella means “little ashes”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cinderella is used in Literature.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˌsɪn.də.ˈɹɛl.ə/ for Cinderella.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From cinder + Italian -ella, as in little cinder girl.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Cinderella (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Cinderella is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Cinderella is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cinderella is pronounced /ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 908 girls were recorded with the name Cinderella between 1894 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,255 in 1894.

How common is Cinderella?

Cinderella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cinderella 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cinderella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cinderellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cinderella was born before 1949 — so the typical Cinderella is around 76 today.

Median birth year: 1949; About 76 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 17.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 12.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 453; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Cinderella 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (25)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,255; 1894

Where Cinderella is used

Across 1910–2025, Cinderella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,148,318 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2North Carolina1 in —

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. Cinderella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cinderella around the world

Where Cinderella 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
1976–2008
#6,693
in 2008

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

Cinderella 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,255; 1894
Peak year: 1922; 25 that year
First recorded: 1894
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 908
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Cinderella

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

Sibling names for Cinderella

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

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Elroy Olen Hoyt

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