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Siri vs Sirr

American parents have registered 2,331 Siris since 1880, against 264 Sirrs. Siri is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Siri against Sirr, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Siri 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

Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Siri for 80 years and Sirr for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Siri Sirr
Total US births 2,331264
Most in one year 12043
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 2,200260
Median age today 2217
Peak year 20092003
Best rank 1,792nd girls2,428th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19422001
Girls / boys 2,331 / 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 Siris alive today are over 22; half the Sirrs are over 17. That is 5 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: Siri and Sirr.