Sitara
Sitara was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,351 among girls’ names; 805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sitara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sitara?
#2,351 among girls’ names, 2025
Sitara rose from #6,208 in 2015 to #2,351 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 48.5 per million.
78 babies in 2025, the peak
Sitara peaked in 2025, when 78 girls were given it, #2,351 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 64 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,351 | 48.5 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,718 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,412 | 46.7 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,926 | 35.4 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,395 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,389 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,660 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,064 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,835 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,717 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,208 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,838 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,331 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,832 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,379 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,867 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,404 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,060 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,515 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,098 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,298 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,185 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,417 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,759 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,004 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,639 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,509 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,328 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,684 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,422 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,452 | 6.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,975 | 6.1 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,153 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,107 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sitara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sitara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sitara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sitara, and how old are they?
An estimated 799 Americans named Sitara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 693 people named Sitara (691 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 460 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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).
Where are babies named Sitara born?
The states with the most babies named Sitara are Texas, California and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,310 | 0.7× |
| California | 10 | #2,069 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 8 | #805 | 0.7× |
Where Sitara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sitara is most over-represented in California: since 1987 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Sitara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sitara
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 Sitara and names like it
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