Sirkka

Girls' name

Cricket + cotyledon

Sirkka has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Sirkka, 1916

1 in 322,000

Sirkka over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sirkka: meaning, origin, and history

Cricket + cotyledon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sirkka means

Sirkka means “cricket + cotyledon”, associated with sirkka and sirkka.

Origin, language, and formation

Sirkka is used in Finnish.

Sirkka is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Sirkka is pronounced /ˈsirkːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Sirkka between 1916 and 1916. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1916; its best national rank was #4,340 in 1916.

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.

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How common is Sirkka?

Sirkka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1916, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1916: 1 in 322,000; 6 of 1,934,362 births
Among girls only: 1 in 174,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1916: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 223,467 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sirkka 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 1916 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 223,467 children born in 1916 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sirkka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sirkkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sirkka was born before 1916 — so the typical Sirkka is around 109 today.

Median birth year: 1916; About 109 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Sirkka 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (6)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,340; 1916

Spellings of Sirkka

Sirkka is not the most common spelling — Sirena is, with 66.1% against Sirkka's 0.12%.

Sirena66.1%3,192
Mikka11.7%566
Sarika11.1%538
Mirka11.0%529
Sirkka0.12%6

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.

Sirkka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,340; 1916
Peak year: 1916; 6 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1916
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sirkka

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

Sireli Sireya Siraiya Sirel Siryah Siriya Sirrah Sirius Sirayah Siriana Sirin Siraya Miakka Shakka Brekka Sirey Sirita Sirina Chakka Arikka Sirley Sirine Sireena Sirenna

Sibling names for Sirkka

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

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Meyer Gustave

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