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Sieara vs Siera

American parents have registered 2,543 Sieras since 1880, against 141 Siearas. Siera is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sieara against Siera, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sieara Siera

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

Siera has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1983 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Sieara had 13 and Siera had 76.

Side by side

  Sieara Siera
Total US births 1412,543
Most in one year 13150
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 1402,500
Median age today 3228
Peak year 19861998
Best rank 5,459th girls1,219th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19861983
Girls / boys 141 / 02,543 / 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 Siearas alive today are over 32; half the Sieras are over 28. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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