Syncere
Masculine · Latin roots · “sincere”
Syncere is given to both — 3,134 boys and 674 girls since 1880. See Syncere as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Syncere is the English word sincere, given a Y and handed to a child. It arrived on American records at the tail end of the twentieth century, part of a wave of virtue names — plain English qualities used as first names — and it says its own meaning out loud, with no translation needed.
How old is the name Syncere?
Syncere first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Syncere is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,100 people named Syncere are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Syncere most popular?
Syncere peaked in 2020, reaching #1033 nationally. Today it ranks #1193, 160 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sincerus (Latin) to Syncere
The story of Syncere
Latin sincerus meant clean, sound, unadulterated, and it passed through French into English in the sixteenth century as sincere. English speakers have a long habit of lifting qualities straight out of the dictionary and using them as names — Prudence, Verity, Constance, Justice — and Sincere joined that line in the United States in the late twentieth century, alongside names like Legend and Messiah. The Y spelling is the American contribution: it marks the word as a name on the page, and it lines the name up visually with Sylas, Symphony and Cyrus.
Meaning
sincere, genuine, without pretence
The name is the English adjective sincere, which came into English in the 1500s from Latin sincerus, 'clean, pure, unmixed'. How sincerus itself was built is debated among Latinists; the often-repeated 'sine cera, without wax' explanation is a folk etymology, not the scholarly one.
How the name formed
- sincerusLatin
- sincereEnglish
- Sincere
- Syncere
Pronouncing Syncere
sin-SEER
Said exactly like the word sincere, with the weight on the second syllable. The Y changes nothing about the sound.
Nicknames for Syncere
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1999
- Most boys named
- 2022213 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1033reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −17.5%170 in 2025, from 206
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Syncere in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, North Carolina, Texas.
Synceres among us
people named Syncere are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 10,048 born in 2025 was named Syncere
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Syncere
- #1193
- Syncere on the 2025 chart
- #429
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Syncere went to 170 boys in 2025, but Sincere, Cyncere and Cincere are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 670, which makes it the 429th most-given boys’ name of the year — 764 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 2,549 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 10,048 for Syncere itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ronney test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Syncere's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ronney climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ronney's path sketches the road Syncere is walking now.
Syncere sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Syncere is headed
Syncere should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Syncere beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Syncere in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Its meaning needs no explaining — anyone who reads English already knows the word, so the name never requires a footnote.
- The pronunciation is fixed by a common word, so it is almost never mispronounced once seen.
- It belongs to a documented English tradition of virtue names running back centuries, which gives it roots older than its own time on the charts.
- Sy is a ready-made short form with a long independent history as a nickname.
- Because the word sincere is so familiar, the Y spelling will be quietly corrected all his life — on forms, in emails, by teachers who trust the dictionary over the roll sheet.
- Written down, the first syllable reads as 'Syn', close enough to 'sin' that schoolchildren tend to spot it. Worth saying out loud a few times before deciding.
- Virtue names invite comment: people do sometimes remark on whether the bearer lives up to the word. Most families find this fades into background noise fast.
- This one's wave is very recent, so nearly everyone who carries it is still young — there are no adult namesakes to point to yet, only the word itself.
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Masculine · Latin roots · #1193 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Synceres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Syncere are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Syncere?
- Syncere is one of 4 recorded spellings. Sincere is the more common one — 445 births in 2025 against 170 for Syncere.
- How popular is the name Syncere in 2025?
- Syncere ranks #1193 among US boy names in 2025, with 170 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Syncere?
- About 1 in every 10,048 US boys born in 2025 was named Syncere — 170 in all.
- Will my child share the name Syncere with classmates?
- Syncere will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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