Cindy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Cindi in FR France, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 1 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 14 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◐

Cindy is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.2M records spelled Cindy39 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Colombia, Brazil

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Cïndy, Cin'Dy, Cîndy, Cindÿ, Cíndy

• Indonesian given name54K records spelled Cindy5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Cindy, Cindy'

• Polish given name22K records spelled Cindy31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Синди, Cyndi, Sindy, Sindi, Cyndee

• Hungarian given name8.7K records spelled Cindy4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Finland, Canada

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Cíndy

• Greek given name8.0K records spelled Cindy3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Sinti, Σιντι

• a separate given name3.0K records spelled Cindy4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Norway

  Also written Cïndy, Çïñdÿ, Çindy

71 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.

Other recorded senses●

Cindy is also recorded in 5 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 name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia and Lucinda; also used as a formal female given name.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, Diminutif de Cynthia; origine grecque, signifie « du mont Cynthos ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• 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 name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, ) Sindy ['srndi]: aus dem Eng­ lischen übernommener weibl. Vom., eng­ lische Kurzform von Namen wie Luanda (

  as a name·DUDEN 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 125 years between 1886–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,183 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cindy?

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

In which country does Cindy have the most bearers?

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

Where is Cindy most common?

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

How common is Cindy compared with other names?

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

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?

Recorded meaning: Short form of Cynthia or Lucinda; ultimately from Greek or Latin roots.