Sinan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Site off the southwest coast of Cholla where a Chinese merchant ship sank c
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/s̪in̪an̪/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Sinan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 640(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.8Kfew records
- ALAlbania1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sinan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 642 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Site off the southwest coast of Cholla where a Chinese merchant ship sank c. 1323; famed shipwreck site with recovered ceramics and coins.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sinan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #168 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 642 | — | Sinan | 159 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 745K | 2 | Sinan | 34 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 160 | Sinan | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 409 | Sinan | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 1.3K | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,117 | 1 in 298K | 1K | Sinan | 200 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1.8K | Sinan | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #311 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Sinan | 18 |
| AL Albania | — | 647 | 1 in 4.8K | 647 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the nl-meertens-voornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sinan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Korean, site of a wrecked Chinese merchant ship raised from the sea
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In Turkish, Mızrak, süngü.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (»eiserne Speerspitze«). Sinan ist der Name eines berühmten Baumeisters im Osma- nischen Reich. (16. Jh.).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Arabic, spear; Umm Sinan: a female companion from Prophet Muhammad's time
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In kyj, false
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
(measured from records)- Rashid ad-Din Sinanb. 1130IQleader of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and figure in the history of the Crusades
- Mimar Sinanb. 1490TR16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
- Sinan Reisb. 1492TRpirate
- Sinan Pashab. 1500BAOttoman admiral (kapudan pasha) of Croat ancestry
- Sinan the Greatb. 1520ALGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1580–82, 1589–91, 1593–95, 1595–96)
- Sinan Oğanb. 1969TRTurkish statesperson (born 1969)
- Sinan Şamil Samb. 1974TRTurkish boxer (1974–2015)
- Sinan Tuzcub. 1977TRTurkish actor (born 1977)
- Sinan Bolatb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Sinan Kurtb. 1996DETurkish-German association football player (born 1996)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.8K | #430 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #1,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #11,460 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 647 | #760 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 409 | #3,650 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 160 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 75 | #11,460 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1997 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 1 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1 | #430 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sinan come from?
- Site off the southwest coast of Cholla where a Chinese merchant ship sank c. 1323; famed shipwreck site with recovered ceramics and coins. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Sinan?
- In Turkish /s̪in̪an̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sinan a male or female name?
- Sinan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Kosovo (ASK Kosovo), France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Albania (INSTAT Albania), among others.
- What does the name Sinan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Site off the southwest coast of Cholla where a Chinese merchant ship sank c.
- In which country does Sinan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 133 thousand people named Sinan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinan.
- How common is the name Sinan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,117 people named Sinan in 2020, about 1 in 298 thousand residents.
- How common is Sinan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sinan is the 168th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Sinan” — the 168th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.