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Sira

#10,010 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Syrus

Sira has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #10,010 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Sira, 2025

1 in 332,000

Sira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Syrus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sira means

Sira is a feminine form of Syrus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sira → Syrus. The family’s meaning is “a Syrian”, recorded in the naming reference for Syrus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Syrus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 girls were recorded with the name Sira between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,931 in 2016.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,304 in 2015 to #10,010 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,010
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Siras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sira was born before 2012 — so the typical Sira is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Sira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+972
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,294
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2016 (15)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,931
2016

Spellings of Sira

Sira is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 16.6% against Sira's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sira is used

Across 1910–2025, Sira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sira around the world

Where Sira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1970–2025
    #482
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,010
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,931
2016
Peak year
2016
15 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Sira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SirenZiraSireenLiraSiratAliraCiraAtiraSiriaAniraSiriHiraAviraEliraLairaNiraEiraQiraLeiraEmiraAyiraJairaNyairaDamira

Sibling names for Sira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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