girls:
5 births since 2015
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
403 births since 1981
#4183 (9th percentile)
overall:
408 births since 1981
#7331 (5th percentile)
The name Sinan is the #7,331 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 408 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 5.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,183 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 403 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2015.
Sinan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Sinan is available in 37 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sinan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Sinan reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #888) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sinan ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 31.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sinan reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #960) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sinan".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Sinan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Sinan is pronounced as sih-NAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sih-NUHN, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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