Siya
Siya was given to 304 girls in 2025, #879 among girls’ names; 3,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,160 Americans named Siya 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 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Siya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Siya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Siya is “a female or male given name used in South Africa, India, and the United States”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Siya?
#879 among girls’ names, 2025
Siya rose from #1,767 in 2015 to #879 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.19 per 1,000.
304 babies in 2025, the peak
Siya peaked in 2025, when 304 girls were given it, #879 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 284 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 304 | #879 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 284 | #934 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,060 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 178 | #1,324 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 193 | #1,222 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,454 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,514 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,309 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 198 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,767 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,993 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,080 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,314 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,100 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,314 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,783 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,105 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,627 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,200 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,665 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,739 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,778 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Siya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Siya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Siya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Siya, and how old are they?
3,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,183 Americans ever recorded as Siya. The median Siya alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,844 people named Siya (1,810 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 837 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,320 |
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 Siya born?
The states with the most babies named Siya are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 53 | #606 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 35 | #859 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 26 | #322 | 3.6× |
| Washington | 21 | #354 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #613 | 1.1× |
| New York | 17 | #943 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 13 | #738 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 12 | #787 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #474 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #905 | 1.2× |
Where Siya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Siya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2000 it was given 3.6 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 Siya 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,485 babies since 1880, Siya is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 304 of their 542 babies (56%), again the most given.
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 Siya
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 Siya and names like it
- Compare Siya and SiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSiya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Siya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Siya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Siya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.