Cindy
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia and Lucinda; also used as a formal female given name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪndi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cindy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 61st most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 602(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 706
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 713
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #432 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 624 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 602 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled סינדי in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Cynthia or Lucinda; ultimately from Greek or Latin roots.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cindy is read(measured from records)
Cindy is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
- Spanish8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cindy in Spanish.
- French7.1%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cindy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 909 | — | Cindy | 91 |
| US United States | #180 | 240,226 | 1 in 1.4K | 240K | Cindy | 624 |
| FR France | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 917 | 64K | סינדי | 13 |
| CA Canada | #122 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 722 | 1 | Cindy | 285 |
| GB United Kingdom | #296 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 134 | Cindy | 234 |
| BE Belgium | #230 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 602 | 428 | Cindy | 134 |
| HK Hong Kong | #148 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 713 | — | Cindy | 84 |
| SG Singapore | #61 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 706 | — | Cindy | 128 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 6,323 | 1 in 806 | 6.3K | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cindy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pet form of Cynthia or, less often, of Lucinda, now very commonly used as a given name in its own right, especially in North America. It has sometimes been taken as a short form of the name of CLARA CLARE Clare ° The normal English vernacular form of Clara during the Middle Ages and since.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Cindy är ett engelskt namn, från början en smekform till namn som Lucinda, Cynthia och Cinderella. Det började användas i Sverige på 1950-talet. Kända namnbärare är fotomodellen Cindy Crawford (f. 1966) och sångerskan Cyndi Lauper (f. 1953), båda från USA. I leksaksvärlden var dockan Sindy tidigare en konkurrent till dockan Barbie → Barbie.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ) Sindy ['srndi]: aus dem Eng lischen übernommener weibl. Vom., eng lische Kurzform von Namen wie Luanda (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Cindy Williamsb. 1947USAmerican actress and producer (1947–2023)
- Cindy Pickettb. 1947USAmerican actress
- Cindy Morganb. 1954USAmerican actress (1954–2023)
- Cindy Shermanb. 1954USAmerican photographer (born 1954)
- Cindy Hensley McCainb. 1954UScommunity organizer
- Cindy Sheehanb. 1957USAmerican antiwar activist
- Cindy Hyde-Smithb. 1959USAmerican politician (born 1959)
- Cindy Crawfordb. 1966USAmerican model
- Cindy Sampsonb. 1978CACanadian film and television actress and director (born 1978)
- Cindy Crawfordb. 1980USAmerican pornographic actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 100 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 240K | #235 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 64K | #2,552 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6.3K | #112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 283 | #235 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 100 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,333 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Cindy come from?
- Short form of Cynthia or Lucinda; ultimately from Greek or Latin roots. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Cindy a male or female name?
- Cindy 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.
- What does the name Cindy mean?
- In English, A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia and Lucinda; also used as a formal female given name.
- What are other forms of the name Cindy?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Luz and Lucille are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Cynthia.
- How do you pronounce Cindy?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪndi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cindy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Cindy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cindy.
- How common is the name Cindy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 240,226 people named Cindy in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Cindy compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Cindy is the 61st most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cindyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cindy” — the 61st most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.