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Siaani vs Siani

American parents have registered 1,166 Sianis since 1880, against 16 Siaanis. Siani is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siaani against Siani, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siaani Siani

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

Siani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Siaani had 16 and Siani had 21.

Side by side

  Siaani Siani
Total US births 161,166
Most in one year 1688
Babies in 2025 under 541
Estimated living today 161,200
Median age today 523
Peak year 20201998
Best rank 6,923rd girls1,774th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,645th
First recorded 20201991
Girls / boys 16 / 01,166 / 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 Sianis alive today are over 23; half the Siaanis are over 5. That is 18 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 Siani.