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Syre vs Syrianna

American parents have registered 642 Syres since 1880, against 79 Syriannas. Syre is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Syre against Syrianna, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Syre Syrianna

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 24 years in which either name was published, Syre for 22 years and Syrianna for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Syre Syrianna
Total US births 64279
Most in one year 7527
Babies in 2025 40under 5
Estimated living today 64080
Median age today 518
Peak year 20212006
Best rank 1,982nd boys5,086th girls
Rank in 2025 3,036thunranked
First recorded 20012006
Girls / boys 0 / 64279 / 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 Syriannas alive today are over 18; half the Syres are over 5. That is 13 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: Syre and Syrianna.