Entry № 2215 · Greek origin

Cynthia Cynthia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIN-thee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"From Mount Cynthus (epithet of Artemis; Cynthia Nixon)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "from mount cynthus (epithet of artemis; cynthia nixon)".

Cynthia is from the Greek Kynthia — "woman of Mount Cynthus," the mountain on Delos where Artemis was born.

Featured in Propertius's Elegies (the poet's beloved was Cynthia).

From Mount Cynthus.

The name in its native script.

Κυνθία
Transliteration
Kynthía
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪn.θi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cynthia stands.

Cynthia 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.

Cynthias before her.

Real people
Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician.
born 1966
Cynthia Erivo
British triple-crown actress.
born 1987
In fiction
Cynthia
Propertius's beloved.

Names connected to Cynthia.

The number behind Cynthia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cynthia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.