Syreeta
Syreeta was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 1,960 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Syreeta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 44 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Syreeta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Syreeta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,718, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
326 babies in 1980, the peak
Syreeta peaked in 1980, when 326 girls were given it, #569 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #19,718 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,852 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,710 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,465 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,014 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,366 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 20 | #4,844 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,226 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,155 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,709 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,334 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,168 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 87 | #1,378 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 242 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 209 | #783 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 326 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 153 | #956 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,779 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,267 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 181 | #782 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 138 | #917 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,751 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,969 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,361 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Syreeta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Syreeta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Syreeta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syreeta, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,960 Americans ever recorded as Syreeta. The median Syreeta alive today is 46 years old; half are between 44 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,608 people named Syreeta (1,608 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,896 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,050 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 797 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27 |
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 Syreeta born?
The states with the most babies named Syreeta are Pennsylvania, New York and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 315 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| New York | 146 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 108 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 93 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 86 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 73 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 61 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Syreeta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Syreeta is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1970 it was given 3.3 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 Syreeta 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,464 babies since 1880, Syreeta is the most given (80% of them).
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 Syreeta
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 Syreeta and names like it
- Compare Syreeta and SyrettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSyreeta peaked in 1980.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Syreeta since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Syreeta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Syreeta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.