Cindy was originally a diminutive of names like Cynthia and Lucinda. It developed into a given name in the 19th century. Cindy was one of the most popular girls names in the US during the 1950s.
Cindy is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Cindy is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,015 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,014 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 253,534 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cindy. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
#19 - this is the highest position Cindy has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Cindy reached this top position was in the last century, in 1957, when 20,304 newborn girls were named Cindy. But as our statistics show, Cindy has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1910, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Cindy is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cindy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 101 newborns were given the name Cindy, making them rank #1,754. Although the name Cindy was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Cindy are still there in our contemporary times.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Cindy. Because: There are women and girls named Cindy in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Cindy is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Utah, where Cindy ranks on place 72. The greatest chance of meeting Cindy, however, is in Wyoming, where one in 313 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 608 women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 969 women and girls for their name before you once get Cindy as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Cindy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cindy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cindy, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cindy sounds like this:
