Sina

Where Sina comes from

Anglicization of Irish Síne and Scottish Gaelic Sìne. Doublet of Jane.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sina
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1834
    Sina Mesdag-van Houten born
    Dutch painter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #463
    19 babies named Sina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #921.
  5. 1997
    Sina Frei born
    Swiss cyclist
  6. 2020
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Namesakes
  • Sina Frei · Swiss cyclist, born 1997
  • Sina Mesdag-van Houten · Dutch painter, 1834–1909
  • Sina Schielke · German sprinter, born 1981
  • Sina Candrian · Swiss snowboarder, born 1988
  • Sina Mayer · German athletics competitor, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.