Sinh
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sinh is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- GYGuyana1 in 39◐
- TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 51
- INIndia1 in 95
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14M ●
- #14 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 500 ●
- 1 in 39 ◐
across 10 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
24M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Singh in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 22 more, ซึง in KR South Korea, Singha in BD Bangladesh and สิงห์ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #3 | 13,918,756 | 22M rec. | 1 in 95 | 14M | Singh | 390 |
| GB United Kingdom | #42 | 256,934 | 114K rec. | — | listed | Singh | 245 |
| MY Malaysia | #15 | 141,757 | 148K rec. | — | — | Singh | 148 |
| AU Australia | #29 | 124,582 | 155K rec. | — | 1 | Singh | 275 |
| US United States | #160 | 116,749 | 1.3M rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 164K | Singh | 500 |
| CA Canada | #16 | 106,538 | 112K rec. | — | 1 | Singh | 231 |
| BD Bangladesh | #260 | 73,479 | 2K rec. | — | — | Singha | 59 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #2 | 28,534 | 649 rec. | — | — | Singh | 52 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #4 | 27,581 | 24K rec. | — | — | Singh | 157 |
| ZA South Africa | #52 | 27,156 | 26K rec. | — | — | Singh | 119 |
| ES Spain | #260 | 26,813 | 42K rec. | 1 in 1.9K | 27K | Singh | 114 |
| DE Germany | #316 | 23,657 | 24K rec. | — | 1 | Singh | 190 |
Roughly 14M people in India bear this name (about 1 in 95). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi1.6M91%
- 92K5%
- Bangla25K1%
- Vietnamese11K1%
- English9.3K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 1,648,886 | 91% |
| 91,931 | 5% | |
| Bangla | 25,400 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 11,059 | 1% |
| English | 9,336 | 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●
Sinh is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The hyperbolic function hyperbolic sine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, to produce; to yield
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Raghubir Sinhb. 1908INIndian politician
- Himmat Sinhb. 1914Indian politician
- Sanjay Sinhb. 1951INIndian politician (born 1951)
- Matang Sinhb. 1953INIndian politician
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sinh?
- We estimate roughly 14 million people bear Sinh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sinh have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 million people bear Sinh in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled singh.
- Where is Sinh most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sinh is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 39 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Sinh compared with other names?
- In India, Sinh is the 3rd most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sinh” — the 3rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.