Meaning not yet researched.
Sinai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 76 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,933 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,933 in 2023; #2,381 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Sinai in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,381 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,933.
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Sinai: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 76 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,933 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 103 (2023).
In 2025, 76 US girls were named Sinai, making it the 2,381st most common girls’ name of the year, up 29 places from #2,410 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 76 girls named Sinai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,933, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #2,275 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Sinai, making it the 8,816th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,393 places from #6,423 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 14 boys named Sinai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,830, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 16. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sinai in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 8 babies. In all, 2,535 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 9.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 864 babies named Sinai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 727 US girls were named Sinai; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 103. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,148 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sinai ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,730 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Siena (11,070 babies since 1880), Zina (5,073 babies since 1880) and Sena (3,326 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sinaya, Sinahi and Cynai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sinaya (137), Sinahi (95), Cynai (92), Sinaiya (5), Synaia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sinai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,730 | #1,205 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,121 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,886 | #1,793 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,381 | 9 | #8,816 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,410 | 14 | #6,423 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,933 | 7 | #10,647 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,046 | 16 | #5,830 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,742 | 13 | #6,572 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,534 | 9 | #8,773 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,998 | 8 | #9,538 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,775 | 10 | #8,055 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,362 | 6 | #11,923 |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,170 | 6 | #11,947 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,075 | 12 | #6,974 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,100 | 9 | #8,662 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,473 | 5 | #13,966 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,028 | 13 | #6,754 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,292 | 12 | #7,118 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,055 | 6 | #12,146 |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,104 | 13 | #6,402 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,136 | 9 | #8,196 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,365 | 8 | #8,800 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,551 | 11 | #6,657 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,059 | 6 | #10,475 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,435 | 8 | #8,202 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,736 | 6 | #10,172 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,184 | 7 | #8,577 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,166 | 9 | #6,759 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,642 | 7 | #7,993 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,925 | 5 | #10,328 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,580 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,473 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,247 | 5 | #9,313 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,909 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,128 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).