Given name
Cinderella
“beautiful girl of the ashes”
Cinderella is used as a given name. One French interpretation is “beautiful girl of the ashes.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “beautiful girl of the ashes.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1894. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cinderella through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 908
- 0 boys · 908 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- 0%
- Steady
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 714 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cinderella’s family of names
In German usage, Cinderella has a related form in Cindy. In English usage, Cinderella has a conventional equivalent in the Dutch form Assepoester. Cinderella has a related form in Cendrillon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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