Synai
Synai was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,696 among girls’ names; 341 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Synai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Synai?
#5,696 among girls’ names, 2025
Synai rose from #14,339 in 2015 to #5,696 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 13.7 per million.
25 babies in 2008, the peak
Synai peaked in 2008, when 25 girls were given it, #5,729 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,696 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,219 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,438 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,960 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,545 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,023 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,270 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,720 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,611 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,036 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,339 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,399 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,168 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,804 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,387 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,155 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,872 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,729 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,690 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,803 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,765 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,460 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,344 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Synai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Synai has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Synai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Synai, and how old are they?
An estimated 338 Americans named Synai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Synai (208 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 238 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Synai?
Synai is a less common spelling of Sinai: SSA has recorded 341 Synai and 2,535 Sinai since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,396 babies since 1880, Synai is the fifth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 156 babies (14%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Synai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Synai and names like it
- Compare Synai and SinaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSynai peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Synai since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Synai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Synai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.