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Siaani vs Siana

American parents have registered 1,268 Sianas since 1880, against 16 Siaanis. Siana is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siaani against Siana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siaani Siana

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

Siana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Siaani had 16 and Siana had 37.

Side by side

  Siaani Siana
Total US births 161,268
Most in one year 1664
Babies in 2025 under 548
Estimated living today 161,300
Median age today 515
Peak year 20202007
Best rank 6,923rd girls2,822nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,249th
First recorded 20201977
Girls / boys 16 / 01,268 / 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 Sianas alive today are over 15; half the Siaanis are over 5. That is 10 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: Siaani and Siana.