Siarra
Feminine · “a mountain range”
A sierra is a saw. The Spanish word comes from the Latin serra, a saw blade, because a ridge of mountains seen from a distance has exactly that profile — a line of teeth against the sky. Spanish speakers named whole ranges that way, and American naming took the word without the mountains. Siarra swaps the ie for an ia.
How old is the name Siarra?
Siarra first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Siarra alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 700 people named Siarra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Siarra most popular?
Siarra peaked in 1996, reaching #2796 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 10,412 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From serra to Siarra
The story of Siarra
Spanish exploration put sierras on the map across two continents, and English absorbed the word for a particular kind of landscape. As a women's name it belongs to American naming of the 1980s and 1990s, when place and landscape words were widely given — Sierra alongside Savannah, Dakota and Montana. Once the name was popular the spellings multiplied, and the ia arrangement is one of several. It appears from 1985 and peaked in the mid-1990s.
Meaning
a mountain range; literally, a saw
From the Spanish sierra, a range of mountains, from the Latin serra, a saw. The metaphor is exact and old: a jagged skyline looks like a blade with teeth, and Spanish uses the same word for both. The Sierra Nevada, the Sierra Madre and Sierra Leone all carry it.
How the name formed
- serra
- sierra
- Sierra
- Siarra
Related forms: Sierra · Serra
Pronouncing Siarra
see-AIR-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Spanish says SYEH-rah in two, with the ie as a single glide; the American version adds a syllable, and this spelling reflects that.
Nicknames for Siarra
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 200246 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2796reached in 1996
- Change vs 2020
- 0.0%6 in 2025, from 6
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.
Siarra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sierra in Spanish — spelling variant
- Serra in Latin — related form
Siarras among us
people named Siarra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Siarra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Siarra
- #13208
- Siarra on the 2025 chart
- #674
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Siarra went to 6 girls in 2025, but Ciara, Siara and Siyara and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 296, which makes it the 674th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,534 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 5,430 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Siarra 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 Nadiyah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Siarra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nadiyah climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nadiyah's path sketches the road Siarra is walking now.
Siarra 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
Siarra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Siarra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a vivid and exact metaphor that takes one sentence to explain.
- Three open syllables that sit well after almost any surname.
- It is readable on sight and impossible to mispronounce badly.
- Sierra is the standard spelling and will be written instead on nearly everything.
- The Spanish word has two syllables and the American name has three, which relatives may notice.
- It belongs to a specific stretch of American naming and dates a woman accordingly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Siarras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Siarra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Siarra?
- Siarra is one of 6 recorded spellings. Ciara is the more common one — 155 births in 2025 against 6 for Siarra.
- How popular is the name Siarra in 2025?
- Siarra ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Siarra?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Siarra — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Siarra with classmates?
- Siarra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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