Cindie
Cindie was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 1,022 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cindie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cindie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cindie is “Alternative form of Cindy (“female given name”).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cindie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,904, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1957, the peak
Cindie peaked in 1957, when 91 girls were given it, #1,095 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #13,904 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,806 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,701 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,081 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,332 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,608 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,628 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,307 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,201 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,037 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 9 | #6,443 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,190 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,210 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,266 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,807 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,554 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,973 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,794 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,929 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,170 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,127 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,923 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,256 | 15.9 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,982 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,652 | 24.9 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,557 | 26.4 |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,640 | 23.3 |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,376 | 31.7 |
| 1959 | 73 | #1,256 | 36.1 |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,302 | 32.8 |
| 1957 | 91 | #1,095 | 44.5 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,400 | 27.9 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,884 | 16.4 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,879 | 16.0 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,530 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,836 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,323 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,928 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,669 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,936 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,422 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cindie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cindie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cindie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cindie, and how old are they?
An estimated 871 Americans named Cindie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 58 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 977 people named Cindie (976 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 916 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Cindie born?
The states with the most babies named Cindie are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 135 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 11 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Cindie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cindie is most over-represented in California: since 1947 it was given 1.4 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 Cindie 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 277,112 babies since 1880, Cindie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Cindie (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 Cindie
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 Cindie and names like it
- Compare Cindie and CindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCindie peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cindie since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Cindie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cindie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.