Cindy

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opinions on the name Cindy for a little baby girl.. 🤍

I went to school with one, never met another one since. I was born in the 70s.

It’s dated, a bit second rate, and really lacks substance.

Passably OK as a nickname.

Sorry but I think it's terrible. It seems to have had had a slight moment in the sixties, and not before or since.

Agree with PPs, Lucinda as the full name.

I agree Lucinda with nn Cindy. Cindy gives me a picture in my head of a blonde looks obsessed woman who only wears pink and pretends she's not very clever because she thinks it's cute. Lucinda on the other hand sounds classy and quite unusual to me. Could also be shorted to Luce or Lucy.

It's a doll isn't it?

Sindy was the British answer to Barbie.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindy

For some reason it makes me think of an American sitcom "mom". I had to think for a minute but it might be because the parents on the original Beverly Hills 90210 are Cindy and Jim.

I know a few French Cindys, not short for anything, all 20s-early 30s. I think it had a spike there sometime around the '90s, but Cindy and Cynthia nn Cindy were popular earlier in the US and probably other English-speaking countries (50s-60s).

I don't see a reason not to use it if you love it, but I'd probably go with a longer name as the "official" name to give more flexibility as an adult. There's not really a lot you can do with Cindy besides Cin.

It's terrible (sorry), definitely dated American.

I think it's kind of fun. I'd put Lucinda as the full name. I do know a Cindy short for Cynthia, in her 50s.

Awful name.I associate the name with a doll, a Bimbo etc.

Weird that y'all assume the doll was a bimbo. Why wouldn't she have been a doctor or an engineer?
I do know of a Cinderella. Last seen revising for scary set of A levels.
Cyndi Lauper is a terrific role model too. Actually that's my favourite spelling.

I like it.

Cindy sounds like an airhead.

@SeanChailleach

Weird that y'all assume the doll was a bimbo. Why wouldn't she have been a doctor or an engineer? I do know of a Cinderella. Last seen revising for scary set of A levels. Cyndi Lauper is a terrific role model too. Actually that's my favourite spelling.

Cyndi Lauper's government name, as they say in the US, is Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton.

Weird that y'all assume the doll was a bimbo. Why wouldn't she have been a doctor or an engineer?

Because some of us are old enough to have had Sindys... or to have looked at them in the catalog at Christmas and then chosen the Etch-a-Sketch or Spirograph instead. She was less the bimbo than a trainee housewife IIRC.
(I wanted the Sindy horse and stable though, but they were far too expensive. )

It's nice and you don't have use a longer name to shorten in to Cindy. Cindy is fine on its own.

Cindy - the name just makes me think of ugly smelly people

Lucinda for the documents, Cindy for home and friends.
If she chooses a profession, law or medicine, then the long version would work best...

I actually like it!

Sindy was the grown-up doll, wasn't she? I had one like that, but I think her name was Tammy or Trixie. I wasn't into dolls, so my brother borrowed her to go on missions with Action Man. They mostly used to break hostage situations iirc

I absolutely love it. Not sure why, I once taught a Cindy and just thought- what a great name. It was vetoed by dh but I would have had it.