Sing — boys' name
41 babies named Sing in U.S. Social Security records since 1890, with the highest year being 1905. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Sing was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Sing in 1905 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sing
The Social Security Administration has registered 41 babies named Sing between 1890 and 2021, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sing currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1905, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Sing is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1980.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sing performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sing shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sing in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 41 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Sing at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sing popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1890
- Peak year (1905)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 132 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
41 total births across 132 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1905 with 10 births in a single year.
Sing popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1980 (Sing as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Sing accounts for 11% of total recorded use across both genders.
Sing by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 17 births that decade — 41% of Sing's all-time total
Sing decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sing's strongest decade
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1890–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.