Sidra
Feminine · “lote tree (jujube tree)”
Sidra names a tree — the lote, or jujube, that grows in the dry country of the Arabian peninsula and shades travelers where little else will. The Quran gives that tree a place at the edge of heaven, and the word has been passed down as a girl's name by Arabic- and Urdu-speaking families ever since. Two syllables, every letter doing exactly what it looks like it should.
How old is the name Sidra?
Sidra first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Sidra is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,900 people named Sidra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sidra most popular?
Sidra peaked in 2025, reaching #1359 nationally. Today it ranks #1359, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From sidr (Arabic: lote tree) to Sidra
The story of Sidra
The Arabic root sidr belongs to a real and useful tree: the jujube, whose fruit is eaten, whose leaves were used for washing, and whose shade matters in a hot climate. Its best-known appearance is in the Quran, where Sidrat al-Muntaha stands at the furthest boundary of the heavens, and that verse is why the word became a girl's name rather than staying a botanical term. From Arabic it moved into Urdu, where Sidra has long been a familiar choice in Pakistan, and then traveled with families into English-speaking countries, spelling intact. The same letters appear on the map at the Gulf of Sidra on the Libyan coast, and in Hebrew usage as an unconnected word for order — coincidences of sound rather than shared ancestry.
Meaning
lote tree (jujube tree), from Arabic
Arabic sidr is the lote or jujube tree; sidra is a single such tree. The name is closely tied to Sidrat al-Muntaha, the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, described in Surah An-Najm. A separate Aramaic and Hebrew word sidra, meaning order or arrangement, gives the name for the weekly Torah portion — the same spelling, an unrelated root.
How the name formed
- sidrArabic: lote tree
- sidraa single lote tree
- Sidra
Related forms: سِدْرَة · سدرہ · Sidrah · Sedra · Sidratul
Pronouncing Sidra
SID-ruh
Stress on the first syllable. In Arabic and Urdu the ending is a clearer -ah, closer to SID-rah, and some families say SEED-rah; all three are heard in the US and none is a correction of the others.
Nicknames for Sidra
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
- 1949
- Most girls named
- 2025162 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1359reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +28.6%162 in 2025, from 126
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.
Sidra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- سِدْرَة in Arabic — transliteration
- سدرہ in Urdu — transliteration
- Sidrah in English — spelling variant
- Sedra in Arabic (dialectal) — spelling variant
- Sidratul in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, California, New York.
Sidras among us
people named Sidra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 9,921 born in 2025 was named Sidra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shaye test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sidra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shaye climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shaye's path sketches the road Sidra is walking now.
Sidra is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Sidra is headed
Sidra looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 26% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Sidra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sidra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled as it sounds: five letters, no silent anything, and most English speakers get it right on a first read.
- Carries a documented meaning from a named source — the lote tree of Surah An-Najm — rather than a guessed one.
- Works in Arabic, Urdu and English without changing spelling, which matters in a family that lives in more than one language.
- Short and stress-forward, so it sits easily beside longer surnames.
- In Spanish, sidra is the everyday word for cider — worth knowing if the family or neighborhood is Spanish-speaking, though it reads as a name rather than a joke in practice.
- Spoken quickly it can be heard as Sierra, Sandra or Sadie, so expect a bit of repeating on the phone and at the doctor's desk.
- She will most likely be the only Sidra she knows, which cuts both ways: no last-initial in the classroom, but a lifetime of being the person who explains her own name. The sounds are easy, so the explaining is short.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sidras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Sidra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sidra in 2025?
- Sidra ranks #1359 among US girl names in 2025, with 162 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sidra?
- About 1 in every 9,921 US girls born in 2025 was named Sidra — 162 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sidra with classmates?
- Sidra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sidra
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