Meaning not yet researched.
Sincere: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 445 in 2025. Its best rank was #544 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #544 in 2022; #631 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Sincere in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#631 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #544.
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Sincere: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 445 boys in 2025. Peak: #544 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 545 (2022).
In 2025, 445 US boys were named Sincere, making it the 631st most common boys’ name of the year, down 28 places from #603 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 475 boys named Sincere in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #544, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 545. For comparison, it was #628 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Sincere, making it the 3,510th most common girls’ name of the year, up 594 places from #4,104 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 36 girls named Sincere in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,164, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #3,054 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sincere in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 11,567 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,715 babies named Sincere.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,668 US boys were named Sincere; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 545. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,838 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sincere ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #166 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Syncere (3,808 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cincere, Cyncere and Sencere 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cincere (884), Cyncere (789), Sencere (196), Cinsere (83), Sincer (53), Sincear (46), Sinceer (26), Sinsere (6), Sinncere (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 Sincere in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #166 | #166 |
| Georgia | 40 | #314 | #456 |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #330 | #282 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #343 | #306 |
| Illinois | 30 | #359 | #371 |
| Indiana | 17 | #428 | #572 |
| Maryland | 12 | #434 | #414 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #483 | #698 |
| Michigan | 18 | #483 | #626 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #491 | — |
| Florida | 37 | #498 | #798 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #510 | #326 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #547 | #1,030 |
| Virginia | 14 | #557 | #384 |
| Alabama | 9 | #564 | #694 |
| New York | 28 | #570 | #533 |
| Nevada | 5 | #588 | — |
| Ohio | 14 | #670 | #400 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #696 | #315 |
| Texas | 36 | #774 | #1,062 |
| Arizona | 7 | #834 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #916 | #893 |
| California | 17 | #1,191 | #1,205 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,510 | 445 | #631 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,104 | 475 | #603 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,378 | 479 | #592 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,034 | 545 | #544 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,791 | 461 | #603 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,010 | 455 | #602 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,376 | 453 | #605 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,912 | 466 | #587 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,546 | 481 | #565 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,842 | 408 | #648 |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,054 | 426 | #628 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,555 | 428 | #620 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,761 | 401 | #619 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,765 | 337 | #706 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,903 | 365 | #641 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,164 | 377 | #642 |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,189 | 344 | #701 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,578 | 324 | #718 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,210 | 397 | #621 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,973 | 363 | #642 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,079 | 326 | #660 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,438 | 256 | #736 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,667 | 258 | #719 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,604 | 225 | #769 |
| 2001 | 48 | #3,004 | 217 | #781 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,704 | 189 | #849 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,067 | 127 | #1,071 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,257 | 17 | #4,174 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,542 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,852 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,081 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,643 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,616 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,923 | 5 | #9,430 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,049 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,371 |
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).