Cindy is the English diminutive of Cynthia — from the Greek Kynthia ("from Mount Kynthos" on Delos, the birthplace of Artemis). A top-25 US baby name from 1956 to 1972. Cindy Crawford (born 1966) — American supermodel; one of the original five supermodels of the early 1990s (with Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Claudia Schiffer); 500+ magazine covers; the trademark mole above her lip became one of the most photographed faces of the era. Cyndi Lauper (born 1953) — American singer; "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (1983) — first female artist to have four top-5 singles from a debut album. Cindy Sherman (born 1954) — American photographer; Untitled Film Stills (1977-80) and decades of self-portraiture made her one of the highest-paid living photographers; sold for $3.9M in 2011.
Subject of countless 1990s fashion histories.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cindy reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.