Meaning not yet researched.
Sire: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 121 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,230 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,230 in 2020; #1,475 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sire in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,475 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,230.
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Sire: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 121 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,230 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 159 (2022).
In 2025, 121 US boys were named Sire, making it the 1,475th most common boys’ name of the year, up 207 places from #1,682 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 100 boys named Sire in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,230, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 159, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,869 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sire in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 6 babies. In all, 1,715 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 805 babies named Sire.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,250 US boys were named Sire; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sire ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #783 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sir (2,172 babies since 1880), Syaire (1,057 babies since 1880) and Syre (642 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Syere, Ziere and Cyre 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: Syere (101), Ziere (88), Cyre (65), Sierre (36), Syiere (17), Siyere (11).
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 Sire 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 12 | #783 | #1,083 |
| Alabama | 5 | #863 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,011 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,214 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,239 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,244 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,256 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,464 | #2,353 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,599 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,963 | #1,618 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 121 | #1,475 |
| 2024 | — | — | 100 | #1,682 |
| 2023 | — | — | 125 | #1,456 |
| 2022 | — | — | 159 | #1,242 |
| 2021 | — | — | 147 | #1,296 |
| 2020 | — | — | 153 | #1,230 |
| 2019 | — | — | 121 | #1,448 |
| 2018 | — | — | 123 | #1,430 |
| 2017 | — | — | 103 | #1,579 |
| 2016 | — | — | 98 | #1,636 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,869 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,251 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,248 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,264 |
| 2011 | — | — | 28 | #3,776 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,365 |
| 2009 | — | — | 36 | #3,211 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #5,037 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,228 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,404 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,243 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #11,156 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,493 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,465 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,880 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,769 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,479 |
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).