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Syra

#5,219 in 2025Girls' name

Syrian

Syra has been given to 434 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #5,219 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Syra, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Syra: meaning, origin, and history

Syrian

Ancient Greek

What Syra means

Syra means “syrian”, associated with syrus.

Origin, language, and formation

Syra is used in Latin. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Syra is pronounced [ˈsy.ra].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 434 girls were recorded with the name Syra between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,076 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,527 in 2020 to #5,219 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,777 in 2015 to #5,219 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Syra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,219
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Syra 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Syra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Syras were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
434
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Choose a decade

2010s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Syra 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
+549
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,308
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,558
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.2%
Peak was 2021 (26)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,076
2021

Spellings of Syra

Syra is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 31.4% against Syra'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 Syra is used

Across 1910–2025, Syra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 601,993 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Syra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Syra around the world

Where Syra 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
    1997–2024
    #2,575
    in 2024
  • France
    1994–2025
    #1,202
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Syra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,219
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,308
Best rank ever
#5,076
2021
Peak year
2021
26 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
434
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Syra

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

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Sibling names for Syra

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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