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Cinthia

#7,974 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cinthia has been given to 6,144 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #7,974 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 205 recorded.

Babies named Cinthia, 2025

1 in 255,000

Cinthia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cinthia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cinthia means

Cinthia is a given name.

The naming story behind Cinthia

Wikidata records Cinthia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q28869286, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,138 girls were recorded with the name Cinthia between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 205 in 1996; its best national rank was #941 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,041 in 2020 to #7,974 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,014 in 2015 to #7,974 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Cinthia between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,106 in 1989.

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 Cinthia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,974
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cinthia 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cinthia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cinthias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cinthia was born before 1992 — so the typical Cinthia is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,100
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Choose a decade

1990s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (1,682).

Is Cinthia 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
−1,760
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,933
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,960
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.3%
Peak was 1996 (205)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#941
1996

Spellings of Cinthia

Cinthia is not the most common spelling — Cynthia is, with 98.3% against Cinthia's 0.85%.

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 Cinthia is used

Across 1910–2025, Cinthia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 32,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 9,091
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3Arizona1 in 16,667
  4. 4Nevada1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 100,000

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

Cinthia around the world

Where Cinthia 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
    1950–2017
    #7,768
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,269
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1975–1997
    #681
    in 1997

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

Notable people named Cinthia

People whose public names include Cinthia, 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.

Cinthia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cinthia. Linked forms have their own page here.

CintiaCynthiaCíntia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cinthia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,974
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,933
Best rank ever
#941
1996
Peak year
1996
205 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,138
Count in 2025
13

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,106
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cinthia

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

CinthyaDelphiaAlethiaSynthiaCintiaCindiCindaCinnamonAleshiaAlishiaKeshiaKathiaLakeshiaAshiaCindieCindeeAlyshiaMakhiaNatashiaZophiaTashiaTyeshiaCindraMyeshia

Names with a curve like Cinthia

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

IvonneKayleneDeonnaRaeannLeandraLizetteSerinaAlisiaLorenJannetPricillaMirian

Sibling names for Cinthia

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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