Cindi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Cindy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 21 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cindi is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Turkish given name14K records spelled Cindi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Syria

  Also written Çindi

• Indonesian given name4.2K records spelled Cindi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Russia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Cindi

• Arabic given name713 records spelled Cindi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia

  Also written Cïndî

• Italian given name342 records spelled Cindi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Çindi

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1942–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Cindi Katzb. 1954USAmerican geographer
• Cindi Duchowb. 1959USpolitician
• Cindi Tuncelb. 1977TRTurkish-German politician (born 1977)
• Cindi Çelikb. 1989TRTurkish athlete (born 1989)
• Cindi Di Nataleb. 1994ARcyclist
• Nadila Cindi Wantarib. 1998IDIndonesian singer
• Cindi Canob. 2001HNHonduran association football player
• Cindi MufsonUSAmerican designer
• Cindi L. TextorUSprofessor of world languages and cultures
• Cindi M. Grossenbacherscreenwriter

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 231 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cindi?

We estimate roughly 328 thousand people bear Cindi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Cindi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 240 thousand people bear Cindi in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cindy.

Where is Cindi most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cindi is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 806 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Cindi compared with other names?

In the United States, Cindi is the 174th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Cindi a male or female name?

Cindi 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 Cindi mean?

Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.