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Sinem

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sinem has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2009, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Sinem, 2013

1 in 608,000

Sinem over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sinem: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sinem means

Sinem is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sinem is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Sinem is pronounced [sinem].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Sinem between 2009 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #16,274 in 2013.

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 Sinem?

Sinem had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sinem 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sinem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sinems were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Sinem 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
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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 2009 (6)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#16,274
2013

Spellings of Sinem

Sinem is not the most common spelling — Inez is, with 55.8% against Sinem's 0.01%.

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.

Sinem around the world

Where Sinem 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
    1996–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    1981–2025
    #5,737
    in 2025

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

Sinem 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
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Best rank ever
#16,274
2013
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sinem

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

SinyaSineaSinitSinaeSinaySinanSindieSinnieSanemSiniahSinayaSindelSiniaSinceerSingSinathSunemSindeeSinahiSinachiSiniyaSindhuraSinaiyaSinatra

Sibling names for Sinem

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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