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Syria vs Syrianna

American parents have registered 567 Syrias since 1880, against 79 Syriannas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Syria 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 42 years in which either name was published, Syria for 41 years and Syrianna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Syria Syrianna
Total US births 56779
Most in one year 4127
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 56080
Median age today 1918
Peak year 20042006
Best rank 3,566th girls5,086th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19482006
Girls / boys 567 / 079 / 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Syria Syrianna
France 505

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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