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Sia vs Siar

American parents have registered 2,795 Sias since 1880, against 80 Siars. Sia is still ahead, with 215 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sia against Siar, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sia Siar

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

Sia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Sia had 166 and Siar had 17.

Side by side

  Sia Siar
Total US births 2,79580
Most in one year 21517
Babies in 2025 21513
Estimated living today 2,80080
Median age today 73
Peak year 20252021
Best rank 1,107th girls5,338th boys
Rank in 2025 1,107th6,446th
First recorded 19682019
Girls / boys 2,790 / 50 / 80

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 Sias alive today are over 7; half the Siars are over 3. That is 4 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 Sia Siar
England and Wales 1,031145
France 57585
Switzerland 118184
Belgium 1905

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: Sia and Siar.