Sinh
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saɪneɪt͡ʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sinh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname.
- GYGuyana1 in 39as Singh(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 95as Singh
- BHBahrain≈1 in 113as Singh
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 Sinh 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #7 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 543 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39 (inferred from the name graph)
13,918,756 named Singh
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Singh
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Singh in IN India, US United States, KW Kuwait and 4 more and Zhong in CN China.
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
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(measured from records)
Sinh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #3 | 13,918,756as Singh | 1 in 95 | 14M | Singh | 425 |
| CN China | #620 | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Zhong | 167 |
| ID Indonesia | #790 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Singh | 140 |
| US United States | #148 | 116,749as Singh | 1 in 2.8K | 164K | Singh | 543 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #3 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 136 | — | Singh | 169 |
| GY Guyana | #1 | 19,357as Singh | 1 in 39 | 19K | Singh | 43 |
| KW Kuwait | #8 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 207 | — | Singh | 47 |
| BH Bahrain | #4 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 113 | — | Singh | 44 |
13,918,756 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
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(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sinh?
- A machine transcription gives /saɪneɪt͡ʃ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sinh have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 million people named Singh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sinh most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sinh itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 39 people named Singh.
- How common is the name Sinh?
- In India, the national register counted 13,918,756 people named Singh, about 1 in 95 residents.
- How common is Sinh compared with other names?
- In India, Sinh is the 3rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sinh?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinhThe 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, “Sinh” — the 3rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.