Cindi
Cindi was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 7,696 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,760 Americans named Cindi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 51 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cindi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cindi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cindi is “a diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.”
20th-century variant spelling of Cindy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cindi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,767, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
481 babies in 1958, the peak
Cindi peaked in 1958, when 481 girls were given it, #428 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | #12,767 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,816 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,452 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,379 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,706 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,689 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,608 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,370 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,709 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,856 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 22 | #5,608 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,827 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,191 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,720 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,426 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,220 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,174 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,024 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,039 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,099 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,593 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,042 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,419 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,909 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,414 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,050 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,160 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,172 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,948 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,661 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,538 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,601 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 97 | #1,305 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,437 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,379 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 94 | #1,271 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 100 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 115 | #1,039 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 118 | #1,016 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 138 | #904 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 178 | #773 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 208 | #728 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 204 | #729 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 190 | #734 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 189 | #709 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 199 | #691 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 204 | #683 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 241 | #629 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 307 | #561 | 0.16 |
| 1963 | 292 | #575 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 330 | #537 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 398 | #487 | 0.20 |
| 1960 | 455 | #458 | 0.23 |
| 1959 | 470 | #443 | 0.23 |
| 1958 | 481 | #428 | 0.24 |
| 1957 | 459 | #438 | 0.22 |
| 1956 | 239 | #618 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 117 | #906 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 116 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 144 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 58 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,465 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,653 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,221 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cindi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cindi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cindi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cindi, and how old are they?
6,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 7,696 Americans ever recorded as Cindi. The median Cindi alive today is 61 years old; half are between 51 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 7,473 people named Cindi (7,463 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,032 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 834 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 313 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cindi born?
The states with the most babies named Cindi are California, Ohio and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,115 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 444 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 435 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 328 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 309 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 300 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 283 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 221 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 170 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 150 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Cindi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cindi is most over-represented in Washington: since 1942 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cindi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 277,858 babies since 1880, Cindi is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Cindi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cindi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cindi and names like it
- Compare Cindi and CindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCindi peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cindi since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Cindi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cindi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.