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Siani vs Siarra

American parents have registered 1,166 Sianis since 1880, against 729 Siarras. Siani is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siani against Siarra, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siani Siarra

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 41 years in which either name was published, Siani for 31 years and Siarra for 10 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Siani Siarra
Total US births 1,166729
Most in one year 8846
Babies in 2025 416
Estimated living today 1,200720
Median age today 2326
Peak year 19982002
Best rank 1,774th girls3,103rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th13,208th
First recorded 19911985
Girls / boys 1,166 / 0729 / 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 Siarras alive today are over 26; half the Sianis are over 23. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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