Sinai is a surname. It is a Portuguese-style spelling of the Konkani surname

Shenoy Shenoy is a surname from coastal Karnataka and Goa in India. It is found among Hindus of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community following Smartha Sampradaya of Kavale Matha or Madhva Sampradaya of either Gokarna Matha or Kashi Matha. S ...

or Shannai. This spelling originated from

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

on the West Coast of India. It is also an

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

and

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surname and masculine given name derived from

Mount Sinai Mount Sinai ( he , הר סיני ''Har Sinai''; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ ''Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny''), traditionally known as Jabal Musa ( ar, جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mount Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is ...

. 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. The Sinai families in India belong to the Brahmin caste.

People

Notable people with this surname include: * Narana Sinai Coissoró (born 1933), Portuguese politician of Goan origin *

Yakov Sinai Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (russian: link=no, Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й; born September 21, 1935) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems. He contributed to the modern metric theory of dy ...

(born 1935), Russian mathematician *

Khosrow Sinai Khosrow Sinai ( fa, خسرو سینایی , 19 January 1941 – 1 August, 2020) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, composer, poet and scholar. Sinai's work was influenced by documentaries and focused on social and artistic subjects. ...

(1941–2020), Iranian film director *

Allen Sinai Allen Sinai is working as the chief global economist, strategist and president at Decision Economics, Inc. He won the Top Forecaster-Wall Street Journal Survey in 2006, as well as the USA Today Survey Top Forecaster in 2003 and 2005. Sinai has wor ...

(), American economist *

Moshe Sinai Moshe Sinai ( he, משה סיני; born 22 February 1961) is a former professional footballer who works as the director of football for Hapoel Tel Aviv. Honours Hapoel Tel Aviv *Liga Leumit: 1980–81, 1985–86, 1987–88 *Israel State Cup: ...

(born 1961), Israeli footballer *

Avraham Sinai Avraham Sinai ( he, אברהם סיני; born December 15th 1962) is a former Hezbollah member who spied for Israel. Originally named Ibrahim Yassin ( ar, إبراهيم ياسين), he fled from Lebanon to Israel in 1997 and later converted from ...

(born Ibrahim Yassin, 1962), Lebanese-born Hezbollah member who converted to Judaism *

Nick Sinai Nick Sinai is a venture capitalist, adjunct faculty at Harvard Kennedy School, author, and a former senior official in the Obama Administration. Nick Sinai was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He assumed this role under ...

(born 1970s), American government official and venture capitalist

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with this surname include: *

Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel '' Midnight's Children'' by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland of pre- and post-colonial India, and newly created Paki ...

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

References

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