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Sinai

#2,381 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sinai has been given to 2,535 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #2,381 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 103 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Sinai, 2025

1 in 43,600

Sinai over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sinai over time

In 2025, Sinai went to 89% girls and 11% boys.

19882025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Sinai: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sinai means

Sinai is a given name.

The naming story behind Sinai

Wikidata records Sinai as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q107254092, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,286 girls were recorded with the name Sinai between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 103 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,933 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,742 in 2020 to #2,381 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,275 in 2015 to #2,381 in 2025.

In the United States, 249 boys were recorded with the name Sinai between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,826 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,568 in 2020 to #8,812 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sinai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,381
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sinai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sinai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sinais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sinai was born before 2011 — so the typical Sinai is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,286
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (794).

Is Sinai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+29
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+361
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.8%
Peak was 2023 (103)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,933
2023

Spellings of Sinai

Sinai is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 34.8% against Sinai's 0.27%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sinai is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Sinai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 19,322 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oregon1 in 25,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Sinai is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Sinai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,743,270 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sinai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sinai around the world

Where Sinai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #789
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sinai

People whose public names include Sinai, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sinai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,381
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 361
Best rank ever
#1,933
2023
Peak year
2023
103 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,286
Count in 2025
76

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,812
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,244
Best rank ever
#5,826
2022
Peak year
2022
16 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
249
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Sinai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Sinai

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sinai, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sinai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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