Humanverse

Syreeta vs Syriana

American parents have registered 1,960 Syreetas since 1880, against 312 Syrianas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Syreeta against Syriana, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Syreeta Syriana

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 39 years in which either name was published, Syreeta for 28 years and Syriana for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Syreeta Syriana
Total US births 1,960312
Most in one year 326119
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,900310
Median age today 4518
Peak year 19802006
Best rank 569th girls1,743rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19702005
Girls / boys 1,960 / 0312 / 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 Syreetas alive today are over 45; half the Syrianas are over 18. That is 27 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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