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Sirius

#3,499 in 2025Boys' name

Burning

Sirius has been given to 729 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #3,499 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Sirius, 2025

1 in 100,000

Sirius over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sirius: meaning, origin, and history

Burning

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sirius means

Sirius means “burning”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sirius is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 724 boys were recorded with the name Sirius between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,345 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,123 in 2020 to #3,499 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,954 in 2015 to #3,499 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Sirius between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #18,505 in 2016.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sirius?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,499
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sirius sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sirius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Siriuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sirius was born before 2018 — so the typical Sirius is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
724
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (319).

Is Sirius 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
−908
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−376
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−545
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.1%
Peak was 2022 (61)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,345
2022

Spellings of Sirius

Sirius is not the most common spelling — Darius is, with 80.2% against Sirius's 1.1%.

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 Sirius is used

Across 1910–2025, Sirius was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 563,014 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sirius has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sirius around the world

Where Sirius 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
    2005–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2002–2025
    #1,336
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2022
    #2,778
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2000–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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.

Sirius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,499
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 376
Best rank ever
#2,345
2022
Peak year
2022
61 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
724
Count in 2025
33

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#18,505
2016
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sirius

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

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Sibling names for Sirius

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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