Cindylou
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cindylou has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1959, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Cindylou, 1972
1 in 524,000
Cindylou over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cindylou?
Cindylou had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1972
- 1 in 524,000
- 6 of 3,142,796 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 254,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1972
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,071 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cindylou sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,071 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cindylou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cindylous were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cindylou was born before 1959 — so the typical Cindylou is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 52.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 44
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Cindylou 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 1959 (10)
- Years since peak
- 66
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Cindylou around the world
Where Cindylou 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.
- England & Wales2020–2023#4,057in 2023
- South Australia1969–1985#671in 1985
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cindylou by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cindylou
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cindylou
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.