Cienna
Feminine · “from Siena”
Cienna respells Sienna, and Siena is a Tuscan city whose earth gave painters a pigment — raw sienna and burnt sienna are named for the ground there.
How old is the name Cienna?
Cienna first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Cienna alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 3,100 people named Cienna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cienna most popular?
Cienna peaked in 2006, reaching #1240 nationally. Today it ranks #1592, 352 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
Where it comes from
From Saina to Cienna
The story of Cienna
Siena's Palio has been run since the Middle Ages and its cathedral is among the great Gothic buildings of Italy. The color word entered English in the eighteenth century. Sienna rose as an American and British girls' name from the 1990s, and the C respelling followed. Cienna appears in the registers from the 2000s and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
from Siena; the earth pigment
From Siena in Tuscany, whose own name may descend from the Etruscan Saina or from the Roman Senones. The city's clay yields an iron-rich earth pigment used since prehistory, and terra di Siena gave English the color word. The place name's own origin is not settled.
How the name formed
- Saina
- Siena
- Sienna
- Cienna
Related forms: Sienna · Siena · Siena
Pronouncing Cienna
see-EN-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Italian Siena has the same stress with a lighter first syllable.
Nicknames for Cienna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 2006194 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1240reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- +26.0%131 in 2025, from 104
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cienna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sienna in English — spelling variant
- Siena in Italian — related form
- Siena in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Ciennas among us
people named Cienna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,269 born in 2025 was named Cienna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cienna
- #1592
- Cienna on the 2025 chart
- #87
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cienna went to 131 girls in 2025, but Sienna and Siena are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 3,293, which makes it the 87th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,505 places above the chart.
and 3 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 488 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,269 for Cienna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Raeann test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cienna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Raeann climbed just as high around 1965, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Raeann's path sketches the road Cienna is walking now.
Cienna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Cienna is headed
Cienna should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Cienna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cienna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A real and beautiful Italian city stands behind it.
- The pigment connection gives it a concrete visual meaning.
- Three syllables with a strong middle, a rhythm that carries well.
- Sienna is the standard spelling of the name and Siena of the city.
- The place name's own origin is unrecovered.
- The C spelling will need dictating every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ciennas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Cienna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cienna?
- Cienna is one of 3 recorded spellings. Sienna is the more common one — 2,659 births in 2025 against 131 for Cienna.
- How popular is the name Cienna in 2025?
- Cienna ranks #1592 among US girl names in 2025, with 131 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cienna?
- About 1 in every 12,269 US girls born in 2025 was named Cienna — 131 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cienna with classmates?
- Cienna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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