Sinead
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sinead is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Irish form of Jane; a feminine form of John; very popular in recent years.
- IEIreland1 in 696◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 14K
- AUAustralia1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ●
- Sources
- 232 ●
- 1 in 221K ◐
across 7 countries
35K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Sinéad in BE Belgium.
Meaning & origin●
Irish form of Jane; a feminine form of John; very popular in recent years.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #927 | 14,835 | 9.9K rec. | — | 9 | Sinead | 163 |
| IE Ireland | #101 | 13,409 | 6.3K rec. | — | 29 | Sinead | 146 |
| AU Australia | — | 7,047 | 6.1K rec. | — | 3 | Sinead | 140 |
| US United States | — | 1,506 | 9.3K rec. | 1 in 221K | 1.5K | Sinead | 232 |
| CA Canada | — | 707 | 444 rec. | — | 2 | Sinead | 67 |
| FR France | — | 490 | 332 rec. | — | listed | Sinead | 90 |
| DE Germany | — | 315 | 277 rec. | — | 1 | Sinead | 54 |
| NZ New Zealand | #813 | 269 | 119 rec. | — | 11 | Sinead | 50 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 213 | 180 rec. | — | — | Sinead | 29 |
| JP Japan | — | 175 | 162 rec. | — | — | Sinead | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 135 | 120 rec. | — | — | Sinead | 12 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 100 | 96 rec. | — | — | Sinead | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English42K84%
- Spanish1.5K3%
- French8102%
- German6081%
- Hindi4041%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 42,400 | 84% |
| Spanish | 1,507 | 3% |
| French | 810 | 2% |
| German | 608 | 1% |
| Hindi | 404 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sinead is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The Irish form of Jane, a common feminine of John. It has pecome very popular indeed within recent years. The actress Sinead Cusack is a contemporary example.
as a nameIrish first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 33 |
| 1989 | 51 |
| 1990 | 160 |
| 1991 | 143 |
| 1992 | 71 |
| 1993 | 32 |
| 1994 | 30 |
| 1995 | 37 |
| 1996 | 38 |
| 1997 | 44 |
| 1998 | 43 |
| 1999 | 29 |
| 2000 | 38 |
| 2001 | 32 |
| 2002 | 38 |
| 2003 | 29 |
| 2004 | 35 |
| 2005 | 27 |
| 2006 | 26 |
| 2007 | 37 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sinead Boucherb. 1970NZNew Zealand journalist and chief executive
- Sinead O'Donnellb. 1975IEIrish artist
- Sinead Keenanb. 1977IEactress from Dublin, Ireland
- Sinead Diverb. 1977IEAustralian long-distance runner
- Sinead Kerrb. 1978GBScottish-British ice dancer
- Sinead Kavanaghb. 1986IEIrish mixed martial artist
- Sinead Chambersb. 1992GBbadminton player
- Sinead Jack-Kısalb. 1993TTTrinidadian volleyball player
- Sinead Curryactress
- Ríoghnach ConnollyIEnot in their usual nameIrish singer, lyricist and flautist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 302 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sinead?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Sinead (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sinead have the most bearers?
- Sinead is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sinead.
- How common is Sinead compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Sinead is the 927th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- Is Sinead a male or female name?
- Sinead is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Sinead mean?
- Recorded meaning: Irish form of Jane; a feminine form of John; very popular in recent years.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sinead” — the 927th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.