Entry № 9740 · French origin

Sinclair Sinclair — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sin-KLAIR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Saint Clair (Upton Sinclair Pulitzer; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "saint clair (upton sinclair pulitzer; modern unisex)".

Sinclair is from the Norman French Saint-Clair — referring to Saint Clarus or various places in Normandy. Madelaine Petsch's Riverdale character Cheryl Blossom — Cheryl Marjorie Blossom's middle name is Sinclair-derived. Frank Sinclair — multiple historical figures. Sinclair Broadcast Group — major American media conglomerate. Clive Sinclair (1940-2021) — male; English inventor; the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982) was one of the most-influential early home computers in the UK; over 5 million units sold worldwide. The Sinclair Clan is one of the most-historically-significant Scottish clans, seat at Rosslyn Chapel — featured prominently in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (2003) which sold 80+ million copies.

Saint Clair (Upton Sinclair Pulitzer; modern unisex) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Sinclair
Transliteration
Sinclair
Pronunciation
/ sɪnˈklɛr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sinclair stands.

Sinclair does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sinclairs before her.

Real people
Upton Sinclair
American Pulitzer novelist.
1878 – 1968
Sir John Sinclair
Scottish statistical survey pioneer.
1754 – 1835
Clive Sinclair
English ZX Spectrum inventor.
1940 – 2021
In fiction
Sinclair
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Sinclair.

The number behind Sinclair.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sinclair reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.