Cyndy
Cyndy was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 1,395 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Cyndy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 40 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cyndy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cyndy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cyndy 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 Cyndy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,941, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1958, the peak
Cyndy peaked in 1958, when 91 girls were given it, #1,103 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #17,941 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,859 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,022 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,076 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,071 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,631 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,980 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,124 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,265 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,566 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 20 | #5,179 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,405 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,129 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,150 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,388 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,338 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,093 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,095 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,547 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,066 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,099 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,879 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,906 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,112 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,779 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,312 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,005 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,535 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,606 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,291 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,039 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,001 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,147 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,617 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,427 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,612 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,337 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,077 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,900 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,646 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,339 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,333 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,068 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,213 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,112 | 16.9 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,672 | 24.4 |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,398 | 32.0 |
| 1961 | 73 | #1,297 | 36.2 |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,314 | 34.6 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,231 | 37.1 |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,103 | 45.2 |
| 1957 | 88 | #1,115 | 43.0 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,550 | 23.4 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,165 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,033 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,027 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,422 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,322 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,727 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,675 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,341 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,956 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,498 | 9.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,753 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cyndy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cyndy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cyndy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cyndy, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,395 Americans ever recorded as Cyndy. The median Cyndy alive today is 62 years old; half are between 40 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,928 people named Cyndy (1,925 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,271 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 624 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 228 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 153 |
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 Cyndy born?
The states with the most babies named Cyndy are California, Texas and Washington, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 198 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 60 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 22 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Cyndy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cyndy is most over-represented in California: since 1942 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 Cyndy 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 277,247 babies since 1880, Cyndy is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 100 babies recorded by SSA was a Cyndy (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 Cyndy
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 Cyndy and names like it
- Compare Cyndy and CindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCyndy peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cyndy since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Cyndy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cyndy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.