Sinead
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,340since 1975
Sinead over time
Rank among girls' names. Sinead has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #4,828 | 27 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1992 | #1,947 | 71 |
| 1991 | #1,205 | 143 |
| 1990 | #1,095 | 160 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sinead! It came in at #5,516, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Sinead is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#960 · 1 in 7,769
- New York#1,192 · 1 in 10,100
- Florida#1,501 · 1 in 14,670
- California#3,021 · 1 in 44,570
Best ever in a state: #434 in Massachusetts, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #960 | 9 | 1 in 7,769 |
| New York | #1,192 | 10 | 1 in 10,100 |
| Florida | #1,501 | 5 | 1 in 14,670 |
| California | #3,021 | 5 | 1 in 44,570 |
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See more about Sinead
- 893 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #8,860)
- 3,282 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #8,860)
- 1,288 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #8,860)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1990 at #1,095 (160 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,866 girls born in 1990 were named Sinead (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.8% of all girls named Sinead (627) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 58 | #4,652 (1977) | #5,447 |
| 1980s | 182 | #2,304 (1989) | #5,341 |
| 1990s | 627 | #1,095 (1990) | #2,718 |
| 2000s | 295 | #3,453 (2000) | #4,886 |
| 2010s | 118 | #7,118 (2011) | #9,283 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,967 (2024) | #9,760 |
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.
Sinead in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 39,562 of them was named Sinead, which outranked 82.8% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,733Talitha45
- #2,733Xochilt45
- #2,733Zana45
- #2,776Sinead44
- #2,776Ambrosia44
- #2,776Audrie44
- #2,776Augusta44
- #2,820Aeriel43
- #2,820Aleia43
- #2,820Alishia43
Tied with 43 names at #2,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.