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.
Where Sinai is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#1,004 · 1 in 6,534
- Illinois#1,631 · 1 in 11,751
- Texas#1,736 · 1 in 13,193
Best ever in a state: #609 in Oregon, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,004 | 32 | 1 in 6,534 |
| Illinois | #1,631 | 5 | 1 in 11,751 |
| Texas | #1,736 | 12 | 1 in 13,193 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 18,936 of them was named Sinai, which outranked 89.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,047Ruthie94
- #2,047Serene94
- #2,047Sumaya94
- #2,064Sinai93
- #2,064Aadya93
- #2,064Alea93
- #2,064Alexandrea93
- #2,078Aaleyah92
- #2,078Afton92
- #2,078Ailani92
Tied with 13 names at #2,064; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 158,079 of them was named Sinai, which outranked 53.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,306Zorian13
- #6,306Zyhir13
- #6,306Zyrell13
- #6,626Sinai12
- #6,626Aadarsh12
- #6,626Aarian12
- #6,626Aaryav12
- #7,050Aaban11
- #7,050Aadam11
- #7,050Aadan11
Tied with 423 names at #6,626; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.