Syrene

Girls' name

Victory + guard, through Syverine

Syrene has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2006, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Syrene, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Syrene: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + guard, through Syverine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Syrene means

Syrene belongs to the name family reached through Syrene → Syverine → Syver → Sigurd → Sigurðr → *Sigiwarduz. Its meaning is “victory + guard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Syrene is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Syverine, Syver, Sigurd, Sigurðr and *Sigiwarduz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Syrene between 2006 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #17,249 in 2020.

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 Syrene?

Syrene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 668,000; 5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only: 1 in 323,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,344 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Syrene 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Syrene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Syrenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Syrene was born before 2006 — so the typical Syrene is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Syrene 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 2006 (5)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #17,249; 2020

Spellings of Syrene

Syrene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 67.9% against Syrene's <0.01%.

Irene67.9%355,462
Serena9.1%47,450
Lorene7.5%39,379
Rene4.2%21,839
Selene1.9%9,713
Dorene1.5%7,925
Norene0.91%4,790
Symone0.84%4,376

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.

Syrene 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: #17,249; 2020
Peak year: 2006; 5 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Syrene

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

Syrelle Syrae Syreen Syrie Syreena Syreta Mailene Zulene Terene Syretha Syriyah Syril Aulene Madene Syrette Syritta Syrenna Syree Louene Lucene Sheene Ravene Madilene Dinene

Sibling names for Syrene

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

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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