How popular is the baby name Cindy in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Cindy.
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It saw another increase in the mid-1980s — though this second spike didn’t last as long, or reach as high. Here are the numbers, followed by the graph:
1986: 58 baby girls named Cyndi
1985: 88 baby girls named Cyndi
1984: 61 baby girls named Cyndi
1983: 28 baby girls named Cyndi
1982: 25 baby girls named Cyndi
What caused the smaller spike?
Music again — but this time it was a singer, not a song.
Eclectic pop star Cyndi Lauper released her debut album, She’s So Unusual, in October of 1983.
The album produced six singles, four of which became top-5 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart during 1984:
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (reached #2 in March)
“Time After Time” (#1 in June)
“She Bop” (#3 in September)
“All Through the Night” (#5 in December)
Also in 1984, the video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (below) won the inaugural MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video.
Cyndi Lauper was born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper in 1953 — several years before the names Cynthia and Cindy reached peak trendiness.
At the age of eighteen, she started going by “Cyndi” instead of “Cindy” at the suggestion of a friend with whom she’d been hitchhiking:
So Richie and I headed to Massachusetts, and we would set up camp and sleep in the woods along the way. We were sitting by the fire one time and he said to me, “You know what? You shouldn’t spell your name ‘Cindy,’ you should spell it C-Y-N-D-I.” So I did.
What are your thoughts on the name Cyndi? Which spelling do you prefer?
Names like Brave and Warrior have surfaced in the U.S. baby name data over the last couple of decades, but Valiant first appeared way back in the 1940s:
1949: 7 baby boys named Valiant
1948: 5 baby boys named Valiant
1947: 6 baby boys named Valiant [debut]
1946: unlisted
1945: unlisted
Why?
My best guess is comic strip character Prince Valiant, who’d been familiar to newspaper readers for a decade by 1947.
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur by Nova Scotian artist Harold “Hal” Foster is an action-adventure comic strip set in sixth-century England.
It is difficult to imagine the impact Foster’s “Prince Valiant” had on 1930s and 1940s popular culture. When “Prince Valiant” began, Superman’s debut in “Action Comics No. 1” was still over a year away. […] “Swipes” of Foster’s art can be found in the origin of Batman and in comics drawn by Jack Kirby, the co-creator of many of today’s movie heroes, including Captain America, the Avengers, the X-Men and Thor.
Other characters from the strip also influenced U.S. baby names.
The earliest example I’ve found is that of the maid Ilene, Prince Valiant’s first love. During 1938, Val fought rival suitor Prince Arn of Ord for her. The same year, the baby name Ilene saw a spike in usage:
1940: 227 baby girls named Ilene [rank: 451st]
1939: 283 baby girls named Ilene [rank: 397th]
1938: 343 baby girls named Ilene [rank: 347th]
1937: 248 baby girls named Ilene [rank: 412th]
1936: 263 baby girls named Ilene [rank: 392nd]
Turns out neither suitor won — Ilene died in a shipwreck — but Arn and Val did end up becoming good friends.
Several years later, Valiant met Aleta, the grey-eyed queen of the Misty Isles. She became a central part of the storyline in the mid-1940s, and the characters finally got married in October of 1946.
As a result, the baby name Aleta saw a steep rise in usage from 1945 to 1947:
Val and Aleta went on to welcome five children, 3 boys and 2 girls:
Arn (who was named after Prince Arn of Ord) in 1947
Karen (twin) in 1951
Valeta (twin) in 1951
Galan in 1962
Nathan in 1982
The name Arn debuted in the data in 1949, and the name Valeta saw peak usage in 1952.
Interestingly, the three middle children were all named via contest:
After Val and Aleta’s twin girls were born, King Features held a contest to name them, but Foster reserved the right to select the winning entry. A young girl, Cindy Lou Hermann, sent in the winning names “Karen” and “Valeta” and visited Hal in Connecticut. For Val and Aleta’s fourth child, a boy who would become the king of the Misty Isles, John Hall won the competition with “Galen” after the Greek physician, Claudius Galen.
What are your thoughts on the baby name Valiant? (Would you use it?)
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 1, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 1-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “ones” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Taylor correspond to the numbers 20, 1, 25, 12, 15, and 18. The sum of these numbers is 91. The digits of 91 added together equal 10, and the digits of 10 added together equal 1 — the numerological value of Taylor.
Baby names with a value of 1
Below you’ll find the most popular 1-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
1 via 10
The letters in the following baby names add up to 10, which reduces to one (1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 10)
Boy name (1 via 10)
Eda, Dea, Ebba, Adda, Ade
Ade
1 via 19
The letters in the following baby names add up to 19, which reduces to one (1+9=10; 1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 19)
Boy names (1 via 19)
Mae, Ema, Abbie, Alea, Aela
Adam, Jace, Dan, Jed, Jah
1 via 28
The letters in the following baby names add up to 28, which reduces to one (2+8=10; 1+0=1).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number one. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 1 being described as “leader,” “independent,” “determined,” “creative,” and “self-assured.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are a few things that are associated with the number 1:
Unity
Uniqueness
First place (as in sports)
Unicorn
Monolith
I kept the list short because you can associate the number 1 with just about anything. It’s universal, you might say. (See what I did there?)
What does the number 1 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
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