Sinai (surname)


Sinai is a surname. It may be a Portuguese-style spelling of the Konkani surname Shenoy meaning "writer"; this spelling originated from Goa. It is also an Arabic and Hebrew surname and masculine given name derived from Mount Sinai. In the United States, the 2010 Census found 367 people with the surname Sinai, making it the 55,841st-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 277 people in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about eight-tenths of the bearers of this surname identified as white, one-tenth as Hispanic, and three percent as Asian.

People

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