Given name & surname
Sindy
Sindy is used as a given name and a surname. Sindy is connected with Cindy.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
In English use, Sindy is a diminutive of Cynthia. An origin associated with Cynthia is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English use, Sindy is used as a spelling variant of Cindy.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Sindy is an affectionate form of Lucinda. The history of Lucinda gives this family its wider story. Lucinda appears in Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The related form Lucinde was used by Molière and later by Friedrich von Schlegel, while Lucinda became established in England in the eighteenth century. In English use, Sindy is a diminutive of Cynthia. The history of Cynthia gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Cynthia is a name for the moon goddess.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Sindy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,773
- 0 boys · 2,773 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 88 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #10,012 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −7%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,012 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 6.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 88 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,441 as a first name in 2020; 217 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sindy’s family of names
In English usage, Sindy is a diminutive of Cynthia. Sindy has an alternative spelling in Cindy. In English usage, Sindy has a related form in Cindy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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