Cinnamon

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Modern name, from the term for the spice (Greek kinnamon, of Semitic origin), in part perhaps referring to its warm brown colour

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɪnəmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cinnamon is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • AUAustralia
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Modern name, from the term for the spice (Greek kinnamon, of Semitic origin), in part perhaps referring to its warm brown colour. Use as a first name may have been influenced by other names which coincide in form with the names of spices, although they partly have other origins; see for example Cassia and Fennel.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cinnamon, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cinnamon is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, spice

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Cinnamon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,210
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1969202—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1991137—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1970110—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197194—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)196891—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197575—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199273—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197365—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197263—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197461—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197859—

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cinnamon mean, and where does it come from?
Modern name, from the term for the spice (Greek kinnamon, of Semitic origin), in part perhaps referring to its warm brown colour. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Cinnamon a male or female name?
Cinnamon is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How do you pronounce Cinnamon?
A machine transcription gives /sɪnəmən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Cinnamon have the most bearers?
Cinnamon is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cinnamon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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