Meaning not yet researched.
Sir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,467 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,467 in 2021; #2,179 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,179 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,467.
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Sir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,467 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 123 (2021).
In 2025, 66 US boys were named Sir, making it the 2,179th most common boys’ name of the year, down 210 places from #1,969 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 80 boys named Sir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,467, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 123. For comparison, it was #2,383 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sir in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 2,172 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 613 babies named Sir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 888 US boys were named Sir; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,880 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sir ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,101 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sire (1,715 babies since 1880), Zyir (811 babies since 1880) and Syre (642 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cire, Sirr and Syier 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: Cire (487), Sirr (264), Syier (114), Syer (100), Siar (80), Zier (50), Sier (27), Zer (17), Syr (15), Zior (10), Siyir (10), Siere (5), and more.
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 Sir in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | #1,101 | #1,067 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,255 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,805 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,258 | #1,522 |
| California | 6 | #2,428 | #2,521 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 66 | #2,179 |
| 2024 | — | — | 80 | #1,969 |
| 2023 | — | — | 84 | #1,892 |
| 2022 | — | — | 96 | #1,746 |
| 2021 | — | — | 123 | #1,467 |
| 2020 | — | — | 110 | #1,524 |
| 2019 | — | — | 111 | #1,531 |
| 2018 | — | — | 111 | #1,537 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,338 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,511 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,383 |
| 2014 | — | — | 58 | #2,293 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,327 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,355 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,293 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,547 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,323 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,669 |
| 2007 | — | — | 43 | #2,801 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,820 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,460 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,530 |
| 2003 | — | — | 44 | #2,419 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,745 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,137 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,042 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,087 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,174 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,603 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,653 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #4,020 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,837 |
| 1993 | — | — | 27 | #2,682 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,457 |
| 1991 | — | — | 43 | #1,862 |
| 1990 | — | — | 39 | #1,964 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,427 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,501 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,316 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,991 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,922 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,880 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,328 |
| 1982 | — | — | 27 | #2,053 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,407 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,357 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,551 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,369 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,893 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,936 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,724 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,797 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #4,007 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,641 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,321 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,654 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,079 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,458 |
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).