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Cynda vs Cyndee

American parents have registered 735 Cyndees since 1880, against 642 Cyndas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cynda against Cyndee, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cynda Cyndee

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 55 years in which either name was published, Cynda for 29 years and Cyndee for 26 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Cynda Cyndee
Total US births 642735
Most in one year 3350
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 520640
Median age today 6562
Peak year 19471960
Best rank 1,661st girls1,580th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19401947
Girls / boys 642 / 0735 / 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 Cyndees are over 62. That is 3 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: Cynda and Cyndee.