Sinji
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sinji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 70Kas 신지(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- USUnited States1 in 749Kas Shinji
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 Sinji 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750 named 신지, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 신지 in KR South Korea and Shinji in US United States.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinji 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 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | 신지 | 21 |
| US United States | 444as Shinji | 1 in 749K | 422 | Shinji | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 78as Shinji | 1 in 2.7M | 112 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 13as Shinji | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 10as Shinji | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 9as Shinji | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 5as Shinji | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Sinji is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, gray, of the color of ash
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)
- Shinji Ishihirab. 1901JPanimation director
- Shinji Satōb. 1932JPJapanese politician (1932–2016)
- Shinji Tarutokob. 1959JPJapanese politician
- Shinji Aramakib. 1960JPJapanese anime director and mechanical designer
- Shinji Kobayashib. 1960JPJapanese association football player and manager (born 1960)
- Shinji Hiraib. 1961JPJapanese politician
- Imaoka Shinjib. 1965JPJapanese film director
- Shinji Nakanob. 1971JPracecar driver
- Shinji Onob. 1979JPJapanese association football player
- Shinji Ishimarub. 1982JPJapanese 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sinji a male or female name?
- Sinji is a male 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 Sinji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 746 people named 신지 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sinji most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sinji is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sinji?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Sinji in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinjiThe 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, “Sinji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.