Entry № 9748 · Irish origin

Sinead Sinead — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shin-AYD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"God is gracious"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "god is gracious".

Sinead (Sinéad) is the Irish form of Janet — itself from Jean (the feminine of John), meaning "God is gracious." Used in Ireland for centuries.

Today Sinead is widely used in Ireland and the diaspora.

God is gracious. The Irish singer who shaved her head.

The name in its native script.

Sinéad
Transliteration
Sinéad
Pronunciation
/ ʃɪˈneɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sinead stands.

Sinead 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.

Sineads before her.

Real people
Sinéad O'Connor
Irish singer-songwriter.
1966 – 2023
Sinéad Cusack
Irish actress.
born 1948
In fiction

Names connected to Sinead.

The number behind Sinead.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sinead reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.