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Sienna vs Sierrah

American parents have registered 39,887 Siennas since 1880, against 1,150 Sierrahs. Sienna is still ahead, with 2,659 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sienna against Sierrah, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sienna Sierrah

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

Sienna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Sienna had 36 and Sierrah had 18.

Side by side

  Sienna Sierrah
Total US births 39,8871,150
Most in one year 2,65981
Babies in 2025 2,6595
Estimated living today 40,0001,100
Median age today 1024
Peak year 20252001
Best rank 94th girls2,064th girls
Rank in 2025 94th14,942nd
First recorded 19601986
Girls / boys 39,877 / 101,150 / 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 Sierrahs alive today are over 24; half the Siennas are over 10. That is 14 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sienna Sierrah
France 2,17540

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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