Entry № 2066 · English origin

Cindy Cindy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIN-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"From Kynthos (Cindy Crawford supermodel; Cindy Lauper; Cindy Sherman)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "from kynthos (cindy crawford supermodel; cindy lauper; cindy sherman)".

Cindy is the English diminutive of Cynthia — from the Greek Kynthia ("from Mount Kynthos" on Delos, the birthplace of Artemis).

Subject of countless 1990s fashion histories.

From Mount Kynthos.

The name in its native script.

Cindy
Transliteration
Cindy
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪn.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cindy stands.

Cindy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cindys before her.

Real people
Cindy Crawford
American supermodel.
born 1966
Cyndi Lauper
American singer.
born 1953
Cindy Sherman
American photographer.
born 1954
In fiction
Cindy
Brady Bunch.
1969

Names connected to Cindy.

The number behind Cindy.

1

The Leader

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.