Sinha

At the 2020 census, 6,540 Americans bore the surname Sinha — 5,167th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 45,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,540
Rank: 5,167th
How common: 1 in 45,700
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

From Sanskrit सिंह (“lion”), or Hindi सिंह (“lion”), or mr सिंह (“lion”), or ne सिंह (“lion”), or Bengali সিংহ (“lion”), or Gujarati સિંહ (“lion”), or Punjabi ਸ਼ੀਂਹ (“lion”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sinha described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha (born 1987)Indian film actress and singer
Shatrughan Sinha (born 1945)Indian actor and politician
Sharda Sinha (1952–2024)Indian singer
Arunima Sinha (born 1988)World's first female amputee to climb Mount Everest
Tapan Sinha (1924–2009)Indian film director
Anubhav Sinha (born 1965)Indian film director
Shumona Sinha (born 1973)French-Indian writer

People named Sinha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sinha

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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.