Siyah — #7495 US unisex name
234 babies named Siyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2007, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 58% of names given to girls today.
65% of everyone ever named Siyah was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Siyah in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Siyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 234 babies named Siyah between 2007 and 2024, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Siyah currently holds the #7495 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Siyah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 52 additional births since 2015.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Siyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Siyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Maryland, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Siyah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Siyah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 234 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Siyah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Siyah popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2007
- Peak year (2016)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 18 years of records
Currently ranks #7495 among girls.
234 total births across 18 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 26 births in a single year.
Siyah popularity over time — boys
52 total births recorded since 2015 (Siyah as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Siyah accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Siyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 152 births that decade — 65% of Siyah's all-time total
Siyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 152 births
- Runner-up 73 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Siyah's strongest decade
152 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 65% of all-time use.
Siyah by state
Where Siyah concentrates geographically — total births since 2007
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Maryland | | 5 | 2.1% |
5 of 234 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Maryland 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Maryland accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2007–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.