Sinä
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sinä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short form of names ending in -sina, such as Rosina or Teresina.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 109K
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 Sinä 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈96,000 named 수현, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sina in DE Germany, NG Nigeria, NO Norway and 3 more, Shin in US United States, CN China and 수현 in KR South Korea.
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)
Short form of names ending in -sina, such as Rosina or Teresina.
Sources 5
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinä 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #42 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 542 | 9.1K | 수현 | 257 |
| DE Germany | #428 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Sina | 189 |
| CN China | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Shin | 34 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Sina | 44 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sina | 46 |
| US United States | — | 3,063 | 1 in 109K | 23K | Shin | 300 |
| CH Switzerland | #838 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 64 | Sina | 74 |
| NO Norway | — | 672 | 1 in 8.1K | 2.3K | Sina | 29 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 700 | Sina | 57 |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Sinä 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 Finnish, you (second-person singular personal pronoun, used in familiar or neutral contexts), thou
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In olo, thou, you (singular)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, you (singular)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sinä mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of names ending in -sina, such as Rosina or Teresina. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Sinä have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 96 thousand people named 수현 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sinä?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,063 people named Sinä in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Sinä compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sinä is the 42nd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sinä?
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/sin%C3%A4The 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, “Sinä” — the 42nd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.