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Siti

Girls' name

From Javanese Siti; literal meaning unconfirmed

Siti has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1976, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Siti, 1989

1 in 768,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Siti: meaning, origin, and history

From Javanese Siti; literal meaning unconfirmed

Javanese

What Siti means

Siti is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Siti is used in Indonesian, Malay, Maranao and Tausug. Its origins include Javanese.

Siti comes through Javanese Siti.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Siti is pronounced /ˈsiti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Siti between 1976 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1976; its best national rank was #9,077 in 1976.

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 Siti?

Siti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 368,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Siti 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 1989 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 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Siti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sitis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Siti was born before 1976 — so the typical Siti is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Siti 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (6)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,077
1976

Spellings of Siti

Siti is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 68.4% against Siti'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.

Siti around the world

Where Siti 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
    1997–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1985–1987
    #507
    in 1987
  • France
    1989–2015
    #7,032
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1960–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Siti 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
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Best rank ever
#9,077
1976
Peak year
1976
6 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Siti

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

SitraSithaDitiSiteySitoraAdritiKaitiVritiDritiSitaHritiMaitiDhitiKlaritiNitiSitharaRitiHaitiAkritiSaahitiAadritiSerinitiSyrenitiSaryniti

Sibling names for Siti

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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