Girls' name · since 2018
Cyn
Cyn has 17 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2020 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #47,611 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Cyn is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 17 have been recorded since 2018.
Cyn has 17 recorded births among girls since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2021.
- #47,611 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 17 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cyn ranks #47,611 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 17 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #47,611 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Cyn's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Cyn's full recorded timeline at 2020, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2018, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2020 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Cyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2021
- Peak year (2020)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Cyn by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (12 births, 71% of the file).
2020s was Cyn's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 71% of all-time use.
Cyn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (71% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cyn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2020)
Similar record span (~3 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.