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
Sina through the years
  1. 1834
    Sina Mesdag-van Houten born
    Dutch painter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #463
    19 babies named Sina, its best rank.
  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 on, more girls have.
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.