Cynda vs Cyndia

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Cynda Cyndia

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 54 years in which either name was published, Cynda for 47 years and Cyndia for 7 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1940–1955 Cynda ahead
• 1956 Cyndia ahead
• 1957–1977 Cynda ahead
• 1978–1979 Cyndia ahead
• 1982–1983 Cynda ahead
• 1984 Cyndia ahead
• 1985–1992 Cynda ahead
• 1993 Cyndia ahead
• 1995 Cynda ahead
• 1996–1998 Cyndia ahead
• 1999 Cynda ahead

Side by side

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 Cyndias are over 63. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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