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Cindie

Girls' name

A Diana monkey, through Cindy

Cindie has been given to 1,022 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1957, with 91 recorded.

Babies named Cindie, 1993

1 in 754,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cindie: meaning, origin, and history

A Diana monkey, through Cindy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cindie means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cindie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cindy and Cynthia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,022 girls were recorded with the name Cindie between 1947 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 91 in 1957; its best national rank was #1,095 in 1957.

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 Cindie?

Cindie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 362,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cindie 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cindie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cindies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cindie was born before 1961 — so the typical Cindie is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
998
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1950s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (414).

Is Cindie 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 1957 (91)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,095
1957

Spellings of Cindie

Cindie is not the most common spelling — Connie is, with 29.3% against Cindie's 0.11%.

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 Cindie is used

Across 1910–2025, Cindie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 305,654 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Oregon1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Cindie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cindie around the world

Where Cindie 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
    1976–2005
    #3,998
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1965–1992
    #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.

Cindie 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
#1,095
1957
Peak year
1957
91 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
1,022
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cindie

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

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Sibling names for Cindie

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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