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Cinda vs Cing

American parents have registered 4,590 Cindas since 1880, against 650 Cings. But in 2025 it was Cing that was commoner, 26 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cinda against Cing, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cinda Cing

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Cinda for 104 years and Cing for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cinda Cing
Total US births 4,590650
Most in one year 21853
Babies in 2025 under 526
Estimated living today 3,300650
Median age today 688
Peak year 19532016
Best rank 599th girls3,100th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,987th
First recorded 18802005
Girls / boys 4,590 / 0650 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cindas alive today are over 68; half the Cings are over 8. That is 60 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cinda and Cing.