Names/S

Sinclair

boys’ name · 76%girls’ name · 24%RisingCompare

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
Babies named Sinclair, by year of birthboysgirls
01325385018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Decadeboys named Sinclair
1900s13
1910s124
1920s198
1930s156
1940s120
1950s168
1960s105
1970s111
1980s164
1990s105
2000s41
2010s74
2020s42

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.

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.