girls:
2.1k births since 1988
#3720 (35th percentile)
boys:
226 births since 1990
#4360 (5th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1988
#5457 (29th percentile)
The name Sinai is the #5,457 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,359 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 29.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,720 (34.9% percentile) for all time with 2,133 births since 1988. For boys, it ranks #4,360 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 226 births since 1990.
Sinai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for girls and 1990 for boys).
The name Sinai has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 93.6% of babies named Sinai were girls.
For girls, Sinai reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 10.4% percentile (ranked #849) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sinai is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #849 (10.4% percentile) with 59 births per million.
For boys, Sinai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #913) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sinai ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 44.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sinai".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Sinai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.6% confident that Sinai is pronounced as SAI-nai, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAI-NAI, at 26.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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