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Siaani vs Sianna

American parents have registered 2,052 Siannas since 1880, against 16 Siaanis. Sianna is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Siaani Sianna

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

Sianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Siaani had 16 and Sianna had 66.

Side by side

  Siaani Sianna
Total US births 162,052
Most in one year 1698
Babies in 2025 under 587
Estimated living today 162,000
Median age today 514
Peak year 20202024
Best rank 6,923rd girls1,997th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,139th
First recorded 20201978
Girls / boys 16 / 02,052 / 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 Siannas alive today are over 14; half the Siaanis are over 5. That is 9 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 Sianna.