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Syrena vs Syriana

American parents have registered 693 Syrenas since 1880, against 312 Syrianas. Syrena is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Syrena against Syriana, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Syrena 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 54 years in which either name was published, Syrena for 48 years and Syriana for 6 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Syrena Syriana
Total US births 693312
Most in one year 26119
Babies in 2025 16under 5
Estimated living today 680310
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20122006
Best rank 5,253rd girls1,743rd girls
Rank in 2025 6,838thunranked
First recorded 19602005
Girls / boys 693 / 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 Syrenas alive today are over 21; half the Syrianas are over 18. That is 3 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: Syrena and Syriana.