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How popular is “Cindy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cindy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cindy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cindy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cindy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cindy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cindy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cindy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 100%
1928 20 0.000008846 20 100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 100%
1932 19 0.000008999 19 100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 100%
1935 29 0.000013876 29 100%
1936 28 0.000013477 28 100%
1937 29 0.000013611 29 100%
1938 53 0.000023954 53 100%
1939 63 0.000028592 63 100%
1940 74 0.000032136 74 100%
1941 104 0.000042685 104 100%
1942 225 0.000082363 225 100%
1943 237 0.000083966 237 100%
1944 264 0.000098138 264 100%
1945 332 0.000125146 332 100%
1946 682 0.000213438 677 5 99%
1947 1140 0.000316463 1133 7 99%
1948 1163 0.000336856 1163 100%
1949 1266 0.000363295 1261 5 99%
1950 1467 0.000418741 1467 100%
1951 2031 0.000551342 2031 100%
1952 2546 0.000670352 2546 100%
1953 3831 0.000994124 3825 6 100%
1954 4720 0.001185719 4714 6 100%
1955 5599 0.001394493 5589 10 100%
1956 9997 0.002424669 9979 18 100%
1957 20307 0.004832534 20272 35 100%
1958 16605 0.004016784 16585 20 100%
1959 17005 0.004089714 16972 33 100%
1960 14984 0.003607286 14952 32 100%
1961 13407 0.003236607 13387 20 100%
1962 12330 0.00305548 12300 30 100%
1963 11110 0.002806831 11087 23 100%
1964 9342 0.002403022 9322 20 100%
1965 7801 0.002151733 7778 23 99%
1966 6807 0.00195848 6793 14 100%
1967 5793 0.001706385 5781 12 100%
1968 5253 0.001554872 5237 16 99%
1969 4980 0.00143296 4957 23 99%
1970 5067 0.001404958 5049 18 99%
1971 4926 0.001435166 4905 21 99%
1972 3745 0.001191539 3737 8 100%
1973 3297 0.001092848 3280 17 99%
1974 2868 0.000943421 2852 16 99%
1975 2520 0.000834605 2505 15 99%
1976 2270 0.000748113 2262 8 99%
1977 2171 0.000683458 2159 12 99%
1978 2054 0.000647159 2041 13 99%
1979 2100 0.000631199 2087 13 99%
1980 1876 0.000544635 1866 10 99%
1981 1761 0.000509051 1747 14 98%
1982 1746 0.000497725 1729 17 98%
1983 1564 0.000451587 1548 16 98%
1984 1555 0.000445718 1541 14 98%
1985 1611 0.000451373 1594 17 98%
1986 1473 0.000414104 1447 26 96%
1987 1443 0.000400209 1424 19 97%
1988 1576 0.000426517 1558 18 98%
1989 1587 0.000412803 1566 21 97%
1990 1581 0.000400002 1566 15 98%
1991 1624 0.000416916 1612 12 99%
1992 1690 0.000439958 1671 19 98%
1993 1656 0.000439225 1642 14 98%
1994 1519 0.000408591 1507 12 98%
1995 1505 0.00041096 1498 7 99%
1996 1497 0.000410452 1497 100%
1997 1429 0.000394125 1421 8 99%
1998 1300 0.000353433 1292 8 99%
1999 1333 0.000360868 1333 100%
2000 1244 0.000329109 1244 100%
2001 1237 0.000330449 1232 5 99%
2002 1221 0.00032662 1221 100%
2003 1160 0.000305077 1160 100%
2004 1052 0.000275326 1052 100%
2005 988 0.000256967 988 100%
2006 881 0.000222689 881 100%
2007 820 0.000205119 820 100%
2008 731 0.000185974 731 100%
2009 567 0.000148423 567 100%
2010 553 0.000149632 553 100%
2011 445 0.000121658 445 100%
2012 367 0.000100345 367 100%
2013 342 0.00009381 342 100%
2014 395 0.000106573 395 100%
2015 249 0.000067281 249 100%
2016 257 0.000070052 257 100%
2017 230 0.000064314 230 100%
2018 170 0.000048352 170 100%
2019 173 0.000049843 173 100%
2020 139 0.00004161 139 100%
2021 114 0.000033649 114 100%
2022 102 0.00003015 102 100%
2023 129 0.000038959 129 100%
2024 123 0.000036954 123 100%

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