girls:
1.3k births since 1975
#4408 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1975
#6427 (17th percentile)
The name Sinead is the #6,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,316 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 16.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,408 (22.9% percentile) for all time with 1,316 births since 1975.
Sinead first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975).
For girls, Sinead reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #707) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 78 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sinead ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sinead".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sinead. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.6% confident that Sinead is pronounced as shih-NAYD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shih-NEED, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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