Sindi
Feminine · “A spelling of Cindy”
Sindi is Cindy written with an S, a playful spelling of the fifties. It happens to share its sound with Sindhi, the language of Sindh — and the river that gave Sindh its name also gave the world the words India and Hindu.
How old is the name Sindi?
Sindi first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Sindi alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 600 people named Sindi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sindi most popular?
Sindi peaked in 1958, reaching #2755 nationally. See the whole 1958 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cynthia to Sindi
The story of Sindi
The great river of what is now Pakistan was called Sindhu in Sanskrit; Persian speakers said Hindu, the Greeks Indos, and from those came Sindh, the name of the province, India, the name of the subcontinent, and Hindu, first a geographical word for the people beyond the river. Sindi, the American name, has nothing to do with any of this: it is Cindy spelled with an S, as families of the fifties liked to vary short, bright names.
Meaning
A spelling of Cindy, short for Cynthia or Lucinda
Cindy is the pet form of Cynthia and Lucinda. Sindi is a respelling; it is unrelated to Sindhi.
How the name formed
- Cynthia
- Cindy
- Sindi
Related forms: Cindy · Cyndi
Pronouncing Sindi
SIN-dee
Two syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Sindi
Limited
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
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 199423 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2755reached in 1958
- Change vs 2011
- 0.0%6 in 2013, from 6
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.
Sindi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cindy in English — spelling variant
- Cyndi in English — spelling variant
Sindis among us
people named Sindi 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
Sindi 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
- Sounds exactly like Cindy, a name everyone knows.
- Short and friendly.
- Distinct on paper.
- Almost everyone will write Cindy.
- Its first syllable is 'sin', which may draw a joke.
- It reads as a mid-century name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sindis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Sindi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sindi in 2025?
- Sindi is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Sindi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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