Sinning
surname · Latin script
Meaning: present participle and gerund of sin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsɪnɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sinning is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 210K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 467K
- USUnited States1 in 664K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
501 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
present participle and gerund of sin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinning 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 501 | 1 in 664K | 506 | Sinning | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | 37 | 1 in 467K | 37 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | Sinning | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 11 | 1 in 4.1M | 11 | Sinning | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | 3 |
501 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Sinningb. 1792DEbotanist (1792-1874)
- Wilhelm Sinningb. 1889DEGerman federal judge
- Arthur Sinningb. 1902GBEnglish footballer (1902-1985)
- Irmgard Sinningb. 1960DEGerman biochemist
- Julia Sinningb. 1996NLDutch model and actress
- Jim SinningUSbasketball player
- Steffen SinningDKresearcher
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 506 | #45,537 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 501 | #43,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 447 | #45,149 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 37 | #37,178 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 28 | #17,378 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #12,957 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Sinning mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle and gerund of sin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sinning?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɪnɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sinning have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 501 people named Sinning, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinning.
- Where is Sinning most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sinning is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sinning?
- In the United States, the national register counted 501 people named Sinning in 2010, about 1 in 664 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sinning?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinningThe 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, “Sinning”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.