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Cindi

Girls' name

A Diana monkey, through Cynthia

Cindi has been given to 7,696 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1958, with 481 recorded.

Babies named Cindi, 2018

1 in 502,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cindi: meaning, origin, and history

A Diana monkey, through Cynthia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cindi means

Cindi belongs to the name family reached through Cindi → Cynthia. Its meaning is “A Diana monkey”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cindi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cynthia and Cindy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,696 girls were recorded with the name Cindi between 1942 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 481 in 1958; its best national rank was #428 in 1958.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cindi?

Cindi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cindi 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cindi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cindis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cindi was born before 1964 — so the typical Cindi is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,557
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (2,805).

Is Cindi 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 1958 (481)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#428
1958

Spellings of Cindi

Cindi is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 73.6% against Cindi's 0.39%.

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 Cindi is used

Across 1910–2025, Cindi was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 29,318 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 11,111
  2. 2Washington1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4Utah1 in 14,286
  5. 5Ohio1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 20,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 20,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 20,000

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

Cindi around the world

Where Cindi 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
    1977–1994
    #4,162
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1966–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cindi

People whose public names include Cindi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cindi 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
#428
1958
Peak year
1958
481 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
7,696
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cindi

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

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Names with a curve like Cindi

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

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Sibling names for Cindi

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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