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Syria

Girls' name

Variant of Siria

Syria has been given to 567 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 2004, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Syria, 2024

1 in 669,000

Syria over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Syria: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Siria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Syria means

Syria is a variant of Siria.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Syria is used in Italian (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsi.rja/ for Syria.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Siria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 567 girls were recorded with the name Syria between 1948 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,614 in 2004.

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.

How common is Syria?

Syria had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Syria 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Syria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Syrias were born

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

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
561
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (260).

Is Syria 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (41)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,614
2004

Spellings of Syria

Syria is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.3% against Syria's 0.03%.

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 Syria is used

Across 1910–2025, Syria was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 708,507 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Syria has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Syria around the world

Where Syria 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.

  • France
    1993–2013
    #6,736
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Syria 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
#3,614
2004
Peak year
2004
41 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
567
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Syria

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

SyraiSyrenaSyraSyriahZuriaAariaNuriaZoriaSyrenKyriaAbriaArriaNariaXariaSariaAuriaDoriaAmeriaAhriaIlariaMoriaTeriaZahriaMyria

Sibling names for Syria

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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