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Cyndy

Girls' name

A Diana monkey, through Cynthia

Cyndy has been given to 1,395 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 91 recorded.

Babies named Cyndy, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cyndy: meaning, origin, and history

A Diana monkey, through Cynthia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cyndy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cyndy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cynthia and Cindy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,395 girls were recorded with the name Cyndy between 1942 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 91 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,103 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 Cyndy?

Cyndy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cyndy 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cyndy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cyndys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cyndy was born before 1963 — so the typical Cyndy is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,323
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Choose a decade

1950s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (418).

Is Cyndy 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
—
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 (91)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,103
1958

Spellings of Cyndy

Cyndy is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 30.5% against Cyndy's 0.16%.

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 Cyndy is used

Across 1910–2025, Cyndy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 239,624 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 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. Cyndy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cyndy around the world

Where Cyndy 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
    1976–2003
    #4,407
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1960–1961
    #665
    in 1961

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.

Cyndy 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
#1,103
1958
Peak year
1958
91 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
1,395
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cyndy

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

HindySindyCyndaAndyCyniahCyndiKendyLyndyIndyWindyKandyCyndeeTandyCynaiCyndeCyndieMendyGlendyHendyCyntiaLindyCyniaCyncereShaindy

Sibling names for Cyndy

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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