Sinai (surname)

SinaiLanguage(s)|

* Arabic
* Hebrew: סיני
* Konkani
* Persian: سینایی
* Bengali: সেন

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Other names
Variant form(s)|

* Hebrew: Sinay
* Konkani: Shenoy
* Bengali: Sen

Sinai is a surname. It is a Portuguese-style spelling of the Konkani surname Shenoy or Shenai. This spelling originated from Goa on the West Coast of India.[1] It is also an Arabic and Hebrew surname and masculine given name derived from Mount Sinai.[2] 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 (66,676th-most common) 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.[3] The Sinai families in India belong to the Brahmin caste.[citation needed]

## People

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Notable people with this surname include:

* Narana Sinai Coissoró (born 1933), Portuguese politician of Goan origin
* Yakov Sinai (born 1935), Russian mathematician
* Khosrow Sinai (1941–2020), Iranian film director
* Allen Sinai (fl. 1961–present), American economist
* Moshe Sinai (born 1961), Israeli footballer
* Avraham Sinai (born Ibrahim Yassin, 1962), Lebanese-born Hezbollah member who converted to Judaism
* Nick Sinai (born 1970s), American government official and venture capitalist

## Fictional characters

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Fictional characters with this surname include:

* Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel Midnight's Children

## References

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1. ^ Saradesāya, Manohararāya (2000). A History of Konkani Literature from 1500 to 1992. Pune: Sahitya Akademi. p. 24\. ISBN 8172016646. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
2. ^ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 2\. United States: Oxford University Press. p. 354\. ISBN 0195081374. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
3. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

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