Cynthia
From Greek, a name for the goddess said to come from Mount Cynthus. Only about 300 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one, though a few girls still get it each year.
Cynthia Pronunciation
What Cynthia means
Where Cynthia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cynthia comes from Greek, from Kynthia, a title once given to Artemis. The goddess was said to be born on Mount Cynthus, a rise on the island of Delos, and the epithet marks that birthplace. The hill came first. So the plain sense is "woman from Mount Cynthus."
English writers handed the name to the moon, since Artemis governed the night sky. Renaissance poets used Cynthia freely: Edmund Spenser wrote it into his verse, and Ben Jonson titled a whole play "Cynthia's Revels" in 1600. For a while the name also stood in for Queen Elizabeth I in courtly poetry.
That literary life kept Cynthia in English long after the Greek hill had faded from common memory. It is a name with no Polish diminutives of its own and no home-grown variants, so it reads as slightly foreign on a class register in Poland. A girl listed as Cynthia carries a Greek place-name behind her. The meaning holds steady: pochodząca z góry Kynthos, the woman from Mount Cynthus.
How many people are named Cynthia
1 in 73194 women in Poland is named Cynthia. 308 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1724 among female names.
Cynthia's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1219 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Cynthia as a middle name
Cynthia is a first name for 308 women in Poland and a middle name for another 66, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 835th, between Anja (66) and Floriana (66).
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