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Cyndi

A Cynthia diminutive meaning “woman of Mount Kynthos.”

US rank (2024)#15,293

Meaning and history

Diminutive of Cynthia, from the Greek Kynthia, "woman of Mount Kynthos," an epithet of the goddess Artemis, said to have been born on that mountain on Delos. American singer Cyndi Lauper (1953-), known for hits like "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," popularized this spelling.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 14 births, rank #8,237
2007: 13 births, rank #9,007
2008: 11 births, rank #10,084
2009: 12 births, rank #9,379
20102010: 13 births, rank #8,701
2011: 6 births, rank #14,824
2012: 8 births, rank #12,199
2013: 8 births, rank #11,969
2014: 10 births, rank #10,129
20152015: 8 births, rank #11,835
2016: no US SSA record for this spelling
2017: 11 births, rank #9,341
2018: no US SSA record for this spelling
2019: 8 births, rank #11,356
20202020: no US SSA record for this spelling
2021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
20242024: 5 births, rank #15,293

Cyndi rose from #945 to #917 for girls between 1964 and 1965. Its highest annual birth count came in 1959, with 230 births.