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Cyncere vs Cynda

American parents have registered 789 Cynceres since 1880, against 642 Cyndas. Cyncere is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cyncere against Cynda, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cyncere Cynda

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 75 years in which either name was published, Cynda for 48 years and Cyncere for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cyncere Cynda
Total US births 789642
Most in one year 5533
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 780520
Median age today 965
Peak year 20241947
Best rank 3,045th boys1,661st girls
Rank in 2025 3,757thunranked
First recorded 19991940
Girls / boys 251 / 538642 / 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 Cyndas alive today are over 65; half the Cynceres are over 9. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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