Sinclair
Sinclair is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192429 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1900
- 1,869people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,421 boys have been named Sinclair in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 29 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1920s alone account for 14%.
Sinclair is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are girls (448), most of them born around 2024.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sinclair | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 124 | |
| 1920s | 198 | |
| 1930s | 156 | |
| 1940s | 120 | |
| 1950s | 168 | |
| 1960s | 105 | |
| 1970s | 111 | |
| 1980s | 164 | |
| 1990s | 105 | |
| 2000s | 41 | |
| 2010s | 74 | |
| 2020s | 42 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Sinclair was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Sinclair
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Albinopeak 1927
- Ramondpeak 1980
- Calvertpeak 1924
- Bonifaciopeak 1930
- Gennaropeak 1926
- Reynoldspeak 1923
- Lovellpeak 1916
- Vernardpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.