Syriah
Syriah was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,540 among girls’ names; 776 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Syriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Syriah?
#5,540 among girls’ names, 2025
Syriah fell from #4,576 in 2015 to #5,540 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 14.3 per million.
52 babies in 2009, the peak
Syriah peaked in 2009, when 52 girls were given it, #3,243 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,540 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,460 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,928 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,436 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,384 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,067 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,019 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,758 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,566 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,622 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,576 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,707 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,508 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,983 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,794 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,227 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,243 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,771 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,462 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,984 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,687 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,800 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,291 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,774 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,676 | 6.7 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,242 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,514 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Syriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Syriah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Syriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syriah, and how old are they?
An estimated 770 Americans named Syriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 493 people named Syriah (488 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,750 babies since 1880, Syriah is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 58 babies (40%), the second most given that year.
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 Syriah
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 Syriah and names like it
- Compare Syriah and SyriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSyriah peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Syriah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Syriah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Syriah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.