Cindy

• Cindi, Cindie, Cyndi, Cyndie, Cyndy

Shortened from Lucinda and Cinderella. In the 20th century adopted as a pet form of Cynthia.

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪndi/

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Cindy

1. A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia and Lucinda; also used as a formal female given name.
   • 1849, Godey's Magazine, volume 39, page 55:

     Cindy came in lugging my trunk, assisted by an elderly servant-woman - - - ["]You may go, Tabitha, to your spinning, and you, Lucinda, bring up a pitcher of water for Miss Mary," said Mrs. Hardinge.

   • 1870, George Cruikshank, George Cruikshank's Fairy Library, page 10:

     Now, you must know that Cinderella had a godmother, - - - . The little old lady sat down upon a small log of wood on the opposite side, and said ,― "Why, Cindy, my darling, you have been crying?"

   • 1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:

     Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them.

   • 2010, James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 95:

     'Cindy sounds nice.' 'She is.' 'Is that her real name? Like the doll?' 'Aye, but with a C. C-I-N-D-Y.' 'Isn't that how the doll's spelled?' 'No, the doll has an S.'

   • 2025 July 8, Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert, “Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot goes on an antisemitic rant”, in Business Insider‎^[1]:

     A woman using the byline Cindy Steinberg has previously published Substack posts under the username "Radical Reflections." However, it's unclear if the woman in the TikTok screenshot is the same person or whether she has made any public comments celebrating or otherwise dismissing the Texas floods, which have left over 100 people dead.

• Popular given name in the U.S.A. in the 1950s.

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