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Sina vs Sinead

American parents have registered 2,248 Sinas since 1880, against 1,340 Sineads. Sina is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sina against Sinead, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sina Sinead

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Sina for 120 years and Sinead for 24 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Sina Sinead
Total US births 2,2481,340
Most in one year 36160
Babies in 2025 3211
Estimated living today 1,5001,300
Median age today 3131
Peak year 19171990
Best rank 1,605th girls1,095th girls
Rank in 2025 6,325th8,860th
First recorded 18801975
Girls / boys 1,728 / 5201,340 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sina Sinead
England and Wales 1542,964
France 38560

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sina and Sinead.