Sir vs Siri

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Sir Siri

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 81 years in which either name was published, Siri for 59 years and Sir for 22 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1942–1979 Siri ahead
• 1980 Sir ahead
• 1981 Siri ahead
• 1982 Sir ahead
• 1983 Siri ahead
• 1984 Sir ahead
• 1985–1987 Siri ahead
• 1988 Sir ahead
• 1989 Siri ahead
• 1990–1994 Sir ahead
• 1995–2012 Siri ahead
• 2013–2025 Sir ahead

Side by side

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 Siris alive today are over 22; half the Sirs are over 13. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Sir Florida (3.2×), Texas (3.1×), Georgia (2.6×)
• Siri Minnesota (16.0×), Washington (4.6×), California (2.3×)

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.

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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