Meaning not yet researched.
Siera: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,207 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,207 in 1996; #12,990 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Siera in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,990 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,207.
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Siera: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,207 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 150 (1998).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Siera, making it the 12,990th most common girls’ name of the year, down 980 places from #12,010 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Siera in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,207, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 150, in 1998. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Siera in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 2,543 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,246 babies named Siera.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 55 US girls were named Siera; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sierra (100,866 babies since 1880), Ciara (34,883 babies since 1880), Cierra (27,659 babies since 1880) and Ciera (11,372 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Serah, Syra and Serai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Serah (814), Syra (434), Serai (114), Sirah (34), Seray (10), Seerah (6), Serae (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Siera in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,990 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,010 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,096 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,863 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,334 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,595 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,734 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,259 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,701 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,754 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,529 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,088 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,285 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1999 | 116 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1998 | 150 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1997 | 132 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1996 | 149 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1994 | 137 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1991 | 125 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,005 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,802 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).