Cyndi
Cyndi was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 3,568 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Cyndi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 42 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cyndi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cyndi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cyndi 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 Cyndi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,802, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
230 babies in 1959, the peak
Cyndi peaked in 1959, when 230 girls were given it, #660 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,802 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,604 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,461 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,097 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,311 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,256 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,476 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,260 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,832 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,527 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 11 | #10,237 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,136 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,346 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,593 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,842 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,656 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,774 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,864 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,429 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,711 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,720 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,679 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,474 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,707 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,713 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,694 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,788 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,164 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,604 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,817 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,881 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 88 | #1,433 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,772 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,994 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,355 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,084 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,341 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,394 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,621 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,265 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,142 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,034 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 66 | #1,452 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,460 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,352 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 105 | #1,118 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 104 | #1,088 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,136 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 84 | #1,155 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 81 | #1,190 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 121 | #917 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 124 | #945 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 152 | #848 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 158 | #837 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 185 | #770 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 175 | #770 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 230 | #660 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 180 | #739 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 146 | #840 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 72 | #1,228 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,026 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,455 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,538 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,724 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,726 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cyndi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cyndi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cyndi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cyndi, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 3,568 Americans ever recorded as Cyndi. The median Cyndi alive today is 58 years old; half are between 42 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 5,934 people named Cyndi (5,924 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,294 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 958 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 595 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 245 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 50 |
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 Cyndi born?
The states with the most babies named Cyndi are California, Texas and New York, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 607 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 263 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 101 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 97 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Cyndi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cyndi is most over-represented in California: since 1946 it was given 1.6 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 Cyndi 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 277,713 babies since 1880, Cyndi is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Cyndi (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 Cyndi
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 Cyndi and names like it
- Compare Cyndi and CindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCyndi peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cyndi since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Cyndi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cyndi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.