Syne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Subsequently; then
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sajn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Syne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 451K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 451K (inferred from the name graph)
26 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Subsequently; then.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Syne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Syne | 5 |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | 17 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 7 | — | — |
26 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Syne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, to inspect (a car or other vehicle to determine whether it is fit for use)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, kome til syne - to come into view
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, his (that or those of him)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, archaic spelling of syn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, afterwards, thereupon
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 26 | #40,527 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #23,151 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Syne mean, and where does it come from?
- Subsequently; then. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Syne?
- A machine transcription gives /sajn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Syne have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 26 people named Syne, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Syne most common?
- Syne is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 451 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Syne?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 26 people named Syne in 2008, about 1 in 451 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Syne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/syneThe 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, “Syne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.