Baby name

STABLE GIRL · GREEK-PORTUGUESE
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Cintia

/SEEN · chah/


“Moon goddess”

Portuguese and Spanish variant spelling of Cynthia, from Greek Kynthia meaning from Mount Cynthus on Delos; the mountain was sacred to Artemis, the goddess of the moon.

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strongwarm

How it ages.

Feels mid-20th century in Brazil; the Cintia spelling is distinctly Lusophone.

The cultural moment.

Common in Brazil from the 1960s through 1980s; now associated with that generation.