Sister
The girl's name Sister has been in the national records since 1883, with 563 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1946. About 40 Sisters are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 83.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sister
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 563
- Estimated living today
- 40
- Median age today
- 83
- Peak year
- 1914
- Best rank
- 1,385th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
How old the living Sisters are
born that year still alive today
Of the 563 babies given the name since 1883, about 40 are alive — 6 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1942 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sisters
- Sister Nivedita (1867–1911)Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
- Sister Lúcia (1907–2005)Portuguese nun, one of the three children who have witnessed Marian apparitions in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973)American gospel musician
- Sister Bliss (born 1970)British musician
People named Sister with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sister is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1914
The most popular girls’ names the year Sister peaked:
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Sister against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.