Sinay

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sinay has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sinay, 2012

1 in 406,000

Sinay over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sinay: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sinay means

Sinay is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sinay is used in Sakizaya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Sinay is pronounced /si.ˈnaj/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Sinay between 2000 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2004; its best national rank was #10,570 in 2004.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sinay?

Sinay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 406,000; 9 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 196,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 281,695 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sinay 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 2012 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 281,695 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sinay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sinays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sinay was born before 2006 — so the typical Sinay is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 70.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 55; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 70.9% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Sinay 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2004 (10)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,570; 2004

Spellings of Sinay

Sinay is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 23.5% against Sinay's <0.01%.

Tina23.5%292,146
Cindy20.7%257,294
Gina12.3%153,057
Nina10.8%133,788
Sandy5.6%69,072
Mindy3.4%42,615
Ina2.7%34,074
Dina2.6%32,021

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.

Sinay around the world

Where Sinay 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.

France
2013–2025
#3,090
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sinay by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,570; 2004
Peak year: 2004; 10 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 55
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sinay

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

Sinaya Sinae Sinia Sindee Sindel Sinea Siniah Sinya Sinem Sinnie Annay Sinahi Yanay Zanay Sinit Siniya Tenay Sinda Ranay Genay Sindhu Sindia Jennay Sanay

Sibling names for Sinay

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

For a sister

Iyanna Charlize Jasmyn Kya Elyssa Anastacia Jaci Delanie

For a brother

Kadin Alexandro Lazaro Reagan Braulio Alexandre Johnpaul Mikel

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