Syretta
Syretta was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 392 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Syretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Syretta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,156, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1980, the peak
Syretta peaked in 1980, when 53 girls were given it, #2,010 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #13,156 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,151 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,676 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,609 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,915 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,726 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,487 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,237 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,455 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,076 | 29.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 41 | #2,404 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 53 | #2,010 | 31.9 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,207 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,267 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,207 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,658 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,874 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,246 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,135 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,472 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Syretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Syretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Syretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syretta, and how old are they?
An estimated 374 Americans named Syretta 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 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Syretta (284 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,464 babies since 1880, Syretta is the second most given (16% 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 Syretta
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 Syretta and names like it
- Compare Syretta and SyreetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSyretta peaked in 1980.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Syretta since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Syretta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Syretta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.