Sinem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name which means "my heart"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sinem/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sinem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.8K
- ATAustria≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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)
a female given name which means "my heart"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinem 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 | #349 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | #80 | Sinem | 112 |
| FR France | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 950 | — | 1 |
| KH Cambodia | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Sinem | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #176 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Sinem | 17 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 207 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 6 | Sinem | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 464 | 1 in 37K | 464 | Sinem | 39 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sinem | 14 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Sinem is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, "Gönlüm, yüreğim, çok sevdiğim" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In goh, strong masculine/neuter/feminine dative plural of sīn
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)
- Sinem Bannab. 1968TRTurkish artist (born 1968)
- Sinem Sakaoğlub. 1974TRTurkish film director
- Sinem Öztufanb. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Sinem Öztürkb. 1985TRTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Sinem Kobalb. 1987TRTurkish actor (born 1987)
- Sinem Doğub. 1987TRTurkish ice hockey player (born 1987)
- Sinem Kavusb. 1991NLDutch actress
- Sinem Ünsalb. 1993TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1993)
- Sinem Kuyucub. 1994TRTurkish figure skater (born 1994)
- Sinem SabanTRfilmmaker
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 950 | #3,278 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 464 | #2,111 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 397 | #3,712 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 207 | #1,838 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 27 | #345 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2003 | 22 | #202 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2005 | 21 | #435 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2004 | 21 | #450 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2002 | 21 | #205 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2017 | 6 | #1,247 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #3,492 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2010 | — | #80 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- What does the name Sinem mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name which means "my heart" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sinem?
- A machine transcription gives /sinem/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Sinem a male or female name?
- Sinem 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.
- In which country does Sinem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Sinem in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinem.
- How common is the name Sinem?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 464 people named Sinem, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Sinem compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sinem is the 349th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sinem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinemThe 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, “Sinem” — the 349th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.