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Sinai vs Sindee

American parents have registered 2,535 Sinais since 1880, against 67 Sindees. Sinai is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sinai against Sindee, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sinai Sindee

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 43 years in which either name was published, Sinai for 38 years and Sindee for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sinai Sindee
Total US births 2,53567
Most in one year 11533
Babies in 2025 85under 5
Estimated living today 2,50060
Median age today 1467
Peak year 20231957
Best rank 1,922nd girls1,904th girls
Rank in 2025 2,368thunranked
First recorded 19881957
Girls / boys 2,286 / 24967 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Sindees alive today are over 67; half the Sinais are over 14. That is 53 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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