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Semiko vs Semira

American parents have registered 609 Semiras since 1880, against 31 Semikos. Semira is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Semiko against Semira, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Semiko Semira

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 36 years in which either name was published, Semira for 34 years and Semiko for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Semiko Semira
Total US births 31609
Most in one year 2333
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 30600
Median age today 4514
Peak year 19802017
Best rank 3,506th girls4,304th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked9,457th
First recorded 19801992
Girls / boys 31 / 0609 / 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 Semikos alive today are over 45; half the Semiras are over 14. That is 31 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: Semiko and Semira.