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Sinclaire

Gender
Girl
Say it
sin-KLAIR
Origin
French
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Sinclaire is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Sinclaire mean?

French: spelling of the Scottish surname Sinclair, from Saint-Clair in Normandy

The Sinclair family founded Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh in the 15th century.

Is Sinclaire a girl's or a boy's name?

Sinclaire is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sinclaire in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Sinclaire, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1995, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Sinclaire in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 20 in 19952025
Sinclaire in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20249#10,266
20237#12,192
20228#11,225
20210–
20200–
20198#11,350
20189#10,540
20170–
20168#11,776
20150–
20147#13,063
20130–
20128#12,193
20116#14,816
20107#13,442
200910#10,675
20086#15,399
20078#12,671
20065#17,163
20057#13,003
20040–
20039#10,420
20028#11,102
20018#11,013
20008#10,738
199913#7,233
199816#6,068
19975#13,719
19967#10,562
199520#4,841
199414#6,313

Names like Sinclaire

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Sinclaire

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sinclaire: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sinclaire, updated 20 October 2026.