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Cieara vs Cienna

American parents have registered 3,093 Ciennas since 1880, against 528 Ciearas. Cienna is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cieara against Cienna, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cieara Cienna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Cienna for 31 years and Cieara for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cieara Cienna
Total US births 5283,093
Most in one year 37194
Babies in 2025 under 5131
Estimated living today 5203,100
Median age today 3315
Peak year 19912006
Best rank 3,036th girls1,240th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,592nd
First recorded 19821988
Girls / boys 528 / 03,093 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ciearas alive today are over 33; half the Ciennas are over 15. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Cieara Cienna
Northern Ireland 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cieara and Cienna.