Sincere
#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · #628 for boys in 2025, 445 births
Given to boys 87.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 545 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,095since 1976
Sincere 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,459 | 44 | #628 | 445 |
| 2024 | #4,039 | 36 | #600 | 475 |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | #592 | 479 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #542 | 545 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #603 | 461 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 | #602 | 455 |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 | #604 | 453 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #587 | 466 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #564 | 481 |
| 2016 | #3,777 | 40 | #647 | 408 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 | #626 | 426 |
| 2014 | #2,535 | 70 | #620 | 428 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | #619 | 401 |
| 2012 | #2,734 | 64 | #705 | 337 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 | #640 | 365 |
| 2010 | #2,152 | 91 | #641 | 377 |
| 2009 | #2,183 | 91 | #700 | 344 |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | #716 | 324 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | #621 | 397 |
| 2006 | #2,940 | 58 | #641 | 363 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 | #659 | 326 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 | #736 | 256 |
| 2003 | #2,638 | 60 | #718 | 258 |
| 2002 | #2,582 | 60 | #766 | 225 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 | #780 | 217 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #845 | 189 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #1,068 | 127 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #8,236 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sincere! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sincere is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#425 · 1 in 3,649
- Pennsylvania#461 · 1 in 4,403
- Virginia#464 · 1 in 3,622
- South Carolina#478 · 1 in 3,427
- New York#527 · 1 in 4,739
Best ever in a state: #93 in District of Columbia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #425 | 13 | 1 in 3,649 |
| Pennsylvania | #461 | 15 | 1 in 4,403 |
| Virginia | #464 | 11 | 1 in 3,622 |
| South Carolina | #478 | 6 | 1 in 3,427 |
| New York | #527 | 24 | 1 in 4,739 |
| North Carolina | #569 | 10 | 1 in 4,922 |
| Texas | #1,400 | 7 | 1 in 23,521 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sincere
- 28 spots since 2024 (#600 → #628)
- 26 spots since 2020 (#602 → #628)
- 2 spots since 2015 (#626 → #628)
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 2000 (#1,068 → #845)
- Biggest drop: 95 spots in 2008 (#621 → #716)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2022 at #542 (545 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,204 boys born in 2022 were named Sincere (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,838 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 41.0% of all boys named Sincere (4,142) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,587 (1976) | #5,587 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 189 | #1,068 (1999) | #5,844 |
| 2000s | 2,899 | #621 (2007) | #718 |
| 2010s | 4,142 | #564 (2017) | #625 |
| 2020s | 2,860 | #542 (2022) | #595 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sincere in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 61,166 of them was named Sincere, which outranked 76.6% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,895Yanely30
- #3,895Yennifer30
- #3,895Zayna30
- #3,970Sincere29
- #3,970Adelyn29
- #3,970Aime29
- #3,970Ajia29
- #4,088Abbygale28
- #4,088Adaline28
- #4,088Adalyn28
Tied with 117 names at #3,970; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 15,119 of them was named Sincere, which outranked 90.8% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,063Kale128
- #1,063Luca128
- #1,063Taj128
- #1,068Sincere127
- #1,068Alexzander127
- #1,068Edmund127
- #1,068Rayshawn127
- #1,073Jase126
- #1,073Javion126
- #1,073Kalvin126
Tied with 4 names at #1,068; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.