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Siani vs Sianni

American parents have registered 1,166 Sianis since 1880, against 574 Siannis. But in 2025 it was Sianni that was commoner, 128 babies to 41.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siani against Sianni, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siani Sianni

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 34 years in which either name was published, Siani for 28 years and Sianni for 6 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Siani Sianni
Total US births 1,166574
Most in one year 88128
Babies in 2025 41128
Estimated living today 1,200570
Median age today 233
Peak year 19982025
Best rank 1,774th girls1,622nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th1,622nd
First recorded 19911996
Girls / boys 1,166 / 0574 / 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 Siannis are over 3. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Siani and Sianni.