Sinead
2025 SSA
About Sinead
One of the best known of the Irish girls' names, thanks to singer Sinead O'Connor. Though it's still in the Irish Top 100, it's no longer quite as fashionable in Ireland as Aoife or Aisling. But by now everyone in the Western World knows it's pronounced shin-aid and so would have no trouble fitting in on an American playground.
This name increased in popularity in Ireland via Sinéad de Valera, the wife of president Éamon de Valera, who was born with the name Jane, but later chose to use its Irish form Sinéad. Actress Sinead Cusack is the wife of Jeremy Irons.
Pronounced shin-AYD.
As of October 2026, Sinead ranked #9378 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1099 in 1990.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Sinead on lists
Famous Sineads
- Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor
Irish singer,songwriter
- Sinéad Moira Cusack
Irish actress
- Sinead Matthews
English actress
- Sinead Keenan
Irish actress
- Sinéad Madden
Irish singer and fiddler
- Sinead Louise Farrelly
American soccer player
- Sinead Maria O'Carroll
singer from the Irish band b*witched
- Sinead Houston Kerr
Scottish ice dancer
- Sinéad Quinn
Irish singer
- Sinéad Mulvey
Irish singer
- Sinéad Lohan
Irish singer
- Sinéad Bernadette Moynihan
English model and actress
- Sinéad Persaud; writer
producer, and actress
- Sinead Harnett
English singer/songwriter
Sinead in pop culture
- Sinead Louise O'Connor
character on British soap opera "Hollyoaks"
- Sinead Starling
character of the book series "39 Clues"
- Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin
character in film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"
- Sinead
character in cult comedy "But I'm a Cheerleader"