Given name
Synclair
“man from Saint Clair”
Synclair is a variant of Sinclair. One English interpretation is “man from Saint Clair.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Synclair is a variant of Sinclair. One English interpretation is “man from Saint Clair.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Synclair is a variant of Sinclair. An origin associated with Sinclair is Scottish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Synclair is a variant of Sinclair. The history of Sinclair gives this family its wider story. The Sinclair surname connects with a Norman family associated with Saint-Clair in northern France and later with the earldoms of Caithness and Orkney. The novelist Sinclair Lewis may have encouraged its twentieth-century use as a first name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Synclair through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 0 boys · 17 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1994.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Synclair’s family of names
Synclair has a related form in Sinclair.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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