Sing

Last seen for girls in 1980 at #10,392 · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #10,799
Given to boys 89.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
1890 · 8 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
41
since 1890

Sing over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #739, 1890girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1890#7398
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five boys were named Sing! It came in at #739, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1891–1904, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Sing
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1890 at #739 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1890–1905
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,231
  • Highest: 1 in 13,231 boys born in 1905 were named Sing (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,580 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #739 in 1890, was only 1 in 13,878 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 41.5% of all boys named Sing (17) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1981
  • Mostly girls until 1980, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s8#739 (1890)#739
1900s10#786 (1905)#786
1910s0
1920s0
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s17#5,468 (1981)#6,265
1990s0
2000s0
2010s0
2020s6#10,799 (2021)#10,799

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.

Sing in 1890

boys
#739
8 births · 1 in 13,878 boys

Top boys' names in 1890

  1. #1John8,502
  2. #2William7,494
  3. #3James5,097
  4. #4George4,458
  5. #5Charles4,061
  6. #6Frank3,078
  7. #7Joseph2,670
  8. #8Robert2,541
  9. #9Henry2,349
  10. #10Harry2,345
  11. #739Sing8
More about 1890

boys

111,024 boys got a published name in 1890; 1 in 13,878 of them was named Sing, which outranked 36.3% of the 1,161 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Sing
  1. #667Vernie9
  2. #667Wylie9
  3. #667Zeno9
  4. #739Sing8
  5. #739Alpha8
  6. #739Alphonso8
  7. #739Andres8
  8. #814Alcide7
  9. #814Alto7
  10. #814Benny7

Tied with 74 names at #739; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. 463Hoyt#974#511
  2. 441Ebb#974#533
  3. 371Eva#974#603
  4. 371Perley#974#603
  5. 371Jimmy#974#603
Fallers
  1. 530Alvie#464#994
  2. 438Thornton#446#884
  3. 420Hezekiah#464#884
  4. 413Essie#581#994
  5. 413Clare#581#994

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890