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Cynda vs Cyndie

American parents have registered 642 Cyndas since 1880, against 556 Cyndies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cynda Cyndie

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 53 years in which either name was published, Cynda for 35 years and Cyndie for 18 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Cynda Cyndie
Total US births 642556
Most in one year 3346
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 520470
Median age today 6564
Peak year 19471957
Best rank 1,661st girls1,588th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19401946
Girls / boys 642 / 0556 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Cynda Cyndie
France 401,740

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