Sire
Sire was given to 121 boys in 2025, #1,475 among boys’ names; 1,715 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Sire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sire?
#1,475 among boys’ names, 2025
Sire rose from #1,869 in 2015 to #1,475 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 41.2 to 70.8 per million.
159 babies in 2022, the peak
Sire peaked in 2022, when 159 boys were given it, #1,242 among boys’ names. The 121 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,475 | 70.8 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,682 | 58.0 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,456 | 73.1 |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,242 | 91.1 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,296 | 84.0 |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,230 | 88.6 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,448 | 67.4 |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,430 | 67.7 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,579 | 55.6 |
| 2016 | 98 | #1,636 | 51.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,869 | 41.2 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,249 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,247 | 30.7 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,263 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,774 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,364 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,210 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,033 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,226 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,399 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,238 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,149 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,485 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,458 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,872 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,762 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,471 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sire has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls 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 Sire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sire, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,715 Americans ever recorded as Sire. The median Sire alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 808 people named Sire (66 women and girls, 742 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 941 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 265 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sire born?
The states with the most babies named Sire are Texas, Georgia and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,464 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 12 | #783 | 2.0× |
| California | 8 | #1,963 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,599 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,214 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,244 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,256 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,011 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,239 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 5 | #863 | 0.4× |
Where Sire is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sire is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1998 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sire with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,734 babies since 1880, Sire is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 465 babies (26%), the second 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 Sire
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 Sire and names like it
- Compare Sire and SyaireBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSire peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sire since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Sire.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sire alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.