Syair vs Syaire
American parents have registered 1,057 Syaires since 1880, against 524 Syairs. Syaire is still ahead, with 264 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Syair Syaire
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 21 years in which either name was published, Syaire for 18 years and Syair for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Syair | Syaire | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 524 | 1,057 |
| Most in one year | 124 | 264 |
| Babies in 2025 | 124 | 264 |
| Estimated living today | 520 | 1,100 |
| Median age today | 3 | 2 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 1,443rd boys | 935th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,443rd | 935th |
| First recorded | 2001 | 2007 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 524 | 52 / 1,005 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Syair Pennsylvania (3.9×), Illinois (3.8×)
- Syaire Florida (2.7×), Michigan (2.7×), Pennsylvania (2.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Syair and Syaire.