Syerra
Syerra was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 410 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Syerra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Syerra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,576, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 2002, the peak
Syerra peaked in 2002, when 31 girls were given it, #4,163 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,576 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,286 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,017 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,102 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,031 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,382 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,912 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,326 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,063 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,880 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 16 | #7,454 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,733 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,072 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,163 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,428 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,274 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,394 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,779 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,451 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,497 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,822 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,614 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,463 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,454 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,361 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,072 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Syerra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Syerra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Syerra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syerra, and how old are they?
An estimated 405 Americans named Syerra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 20 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 346 people named Syerra (345 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 406 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Syerra?
Syerra is a less common spelling of Sierra: SSA has recorded 410 Syerra and 100,866 Sierra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 106,950 babies since 1880, Syerra is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 519 babies recorded by SSA was a Syerra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Syerra
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 Syerra and names like it
- Compare Syerra and SierraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSyerra peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Syerra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Syerra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.