Girl
Cynthia
As a girl's name, Cynthia traces back to Greek, where it is understood to mean "Moon goddess". It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is about as mainstream as a name gets in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
GreekMoon goddess
GreekOf Mount Cynthus
Births by decade
1900s
694
1910s
1,911
1920s
3,663
1930s
9,693
1940s
58,203
1950s
263,859
1960s
197,164
1970s
80,544
1980s
41,937
1990s
31,466
2000s
15,170
2010s
5,134
Peaked in the 1950s · 709,438 total U.S. births since 1900