Cinnamon
Feminine · “the spice”
Cinnamon arrives in the record with a whole cohort of word-names in the same few years — Autumn, Misty, Rainbow, Sunshine, Summer. The late sixties opened English vocabulary to naming in a way no previous decade had, and the spices and the weather went on birth certificates together.
How old is the name Cinnamon?
Cinnamon first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Cinnamon alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 1,900 people named Cinnamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cinnamon most popular?
Cinnamon peaked in 1969, reaching #698 nationally. See the whole 1969 chart.
Where it comes from
From kinnamomon to Cinnamon
The story of Cinnamon
Where the spice came from was a trade secret for a thousand years and the cover stories were magnificent. Herodotus records, apparently in good faith, that cinnamon sticks were gathered by enormous birds to build their nests on inaccessible cliffs, and that traders got them down by leaving out large pieces of meat which the birds carried up until the nests collapsed under the weight. Other accounts had it guarded by winged serpents. All of this was almost certainly put about by the Arab middlemen who controlled the route, to keep buyers from asking where the trees actually grew — which was Sri Lanka, and stayed a secret until the Portuguese arrived.
Meaning
the spice
The English word for the inner bark of several related trees, taken as a name. The word itself came into Greek from a Semitic source and its earlier history is not recoverable; the name carries the spice rather than any older sense.
How the name formed
- kinnamomon
- cinnamon
- Cinnamon
Pronouncing Cinnamon
SIN-uh-mun
Three syllables with the stress at the front. Nothing about the spelling is ambiguous and everyone reads it correctly on sight.
Nicknames for Cinnamon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 1969202 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #698reached in 1969
- Change vs 2009
- +40.0%7 in 2010, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cinnamons among us
people named Cinnamon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Cinnamon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is warm, concrete and instantly understood without any explanation.
- The spelling is unambiguous and never needs repeating.
- It has a genuinely long and interesting trade history behind it.
- The obvious short form is a homophone of an unfortunate word.
- It is very firmly tied to one short stretch of years and reads as belonging to them.
- It is a food, which some adults find harder to carry than children do.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cinnamons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Cinnamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Cinnamon in 2025?
- Cinnamon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Cinnamon with classmates?
- Cinnamon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More C names
The most-given names starting with C, all years combined.
Carol#2239 · Cynthia#1013 · Catherine#313 · Christine#1272 · Carolyn#1222 · Christina#770 · Charlotte#2 · Cheryl#4352
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