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 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,112 · 1 in 22,450
Best ever in a state: #93 in District of Columbia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,112 | 5 | 1 in 22,450 |
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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 |
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| 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 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 313,801 of them was named Sincere, which outranked 14.0% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 908 names at #5,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.