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Sirena vs Sirr

American parents have registered 3,192 Sirenas since 1880, against 264 Sirrs. Sirena is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sirena Sirr

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

Sirena has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Sirena had 75 and Sirr had 43.

Side by side

  Sirena Sirr
Total US births 3,192264
Most in one year 13643
Babies in 2025 45under 5
Estimated living today 3,100260
Median age today 3017
Peak year 19952003
Best rank 1,251st girls2,428th boys
Rank in 2025 3,389thunranked
First recorded 19662001
Girls / boys 3,192 / 00 / 264

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 Sirenas alive today are over 30; half the Sirrs are over 17. That is 13 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: Sirena and Sirr.