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Siraj vs Sirr

American parents have registered 635 Sirajs since 1880, against 264 Sirrs. Siraj is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siraj against Sirr, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siraj Sirr

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 37 years in which either name was published, Siraj for 33 years and Sirr for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Siraj Sirr
Total US births 635264
Most in one year 3743
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 630260
Median age today 1117
Peak year 20172003
Best rank 3,123rd boys2,428th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249thunranked
First recorded 19872001
Girls / boys 0 / 6350 / 264

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 Sirrs alive today are over 17; half the Sirajs are over 11. That is 6 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: Siraj and Sirr.