Sinai
#2,368 for girls in 2025, 76 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 90.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 103 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,286since 1988
Sinai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,368 | 76 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #2,034 | 95 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,712 | 61 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #2,343 | 80 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #2,259 | 83 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,038 | 96 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,152 | 87 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #2,064 | 93 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #2,088 | 92 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #2,016 | 102 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #2,034 | 100 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #2,098 | 93 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #2,345 | 73 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #2,522 | 64 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #2,411 | 65 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #2,708 | 54 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #3,148 | 41 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sinai! It came in at #8,391, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sinai
- 21 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #2,368)
- 344 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #2,368)
- 109 spots since 2015 (#2,259 → #2,368)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2023 at #1,922 (103 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,578 girls born in 2023 were named Sinai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,148 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all girls named Sinai (794) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 20 | #6,531 (1989) | #7,461 |
| 1990s | 240 | #3,116 (1998) | #4,756 |
| 2000s | 772 | #2,016 (2009) | #2,354 |
| 2010s | 794 | #2,038 (2014) | #2,361 |
| 2020s | 460 | #1,922 (2023) | #2,446 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sinai in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 21,988 of them was named Sinai, which outranked 88.9% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,253Opal87
- #2,253Samari87
- #2,253Shayne87
- #2,267Sinai86
- #2,267Addelyn86
- #2,267Ahtziri86
- #2,267Alanis86
- #2,295Ameerah85
- #2,295Anali85
- #2,295Ashely85
Tied with 27 names at #2,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 170,013 of them was named Sinai, which outranked 53.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,393Zeven13
- #6,393Ziyan13
- #6,393Zyire13
- #6,763Sinai12
- #6,763Aaidan12
- #6,763Aaran12
- #6,763Abdoulie12
- #7,187Aadon11
- #7,187Abdimalik11
- #7,187Abdinasir11
Tied with 423 names at #6,763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.