Cinch
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- SINCH
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Cinch is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “saddle girth; a sure thing”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Cinch mean?
English: English word, from Spanish cincha 'saddle girth'
“saddle girth; a sure thing”
A cinch is the strap that holds a Western saddle in place, a word borrowed from Spanish cincha.
Is Cinch a girl's or a boy's name?
Cinch is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cinch in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Cinch, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 20 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Cinch in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cinch in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,682 |
| 2011 | 18 | #4,981 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Cinch
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Briggs, Cove, Caspian, Case, Ridge, Cassian, Cannon, Crew, Rhodes, Callan, Finn, Reign
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cinch: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cinch, updated 20 October 2026.