Sira
Sira was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,010 among girls’ names; 251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sira?
#10,010 among girls’ names, 2025
Sira rose from #14,304 in 2015 to #10,010 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 6.2 per million.
15 babies in 2016, the peak
Sira peaked in 2016, when 15 girls were given it, #7,931 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,010 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,982 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,218 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,463 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,905 | 7.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,251 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,073 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,593 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,931 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,304 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,241 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,843 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,635 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,496 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,695 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,898 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,995 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,135 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,826 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,366 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,484 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,638 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,421 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,582 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,761 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,216 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,698 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sira, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Sira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 667 people named Sira (622 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 110,053 babies since 1880, Sira is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 592 babies (1.7%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sira and names like it
- Compare Sira and SierraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSira peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sira since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Sira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.