Sinclair
Sinclair is the 1,261st most common surname in the United States, shared by 27,347 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,900.
By the numbers
- People
- 27,347
- Rank
- 1,261st
- How common
- 1 in 10,900
- Per 100,000
- 9.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
Derived from Saint Clare, to whom the clan's churches were dedicated.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Sinclair described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Sinclair
- Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)American writer
- Christine Sinclair (born 1983)Canadian association football player
- Clive Sinclair (1940–2021)English entrepreneur and inventor
- Scott Sinclair (born 1989)English association football player
- Teddy Sinclair (born 1986)British singer and actress
- Madge Sinclair (1938–1995)Jamaican actress
- Trevor Sinclair (born 1973)English footballer
- Jerome Sinclair (born 1996)English association football player
People named Sinclair with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Sinclair
Also a first name
Sinclair has been given to 1,912 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.