Sirena
Feminine · “siren”
Sirena is the Spanish and Italian word for a mermaid, and it comes from the Sirens of Greek myth — who were not mermaids at all but bird-women, and whose danger was their singing.
How old is the name Sirena?
Sirena first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Sirena alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 3,100 people named Sirena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sirena most popular?
Sirena peaked in 1995, reaching #1251 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 2,138 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Seiren to Sirena
The story of Sirena
Homer's Sirens sit on an island singing, and sailors who listen are lost; they are birds with women's faces in the Greek imagination, not fish. Medieval bestiaries redrew them as fish-tailed, and that is the image Spanish sirena and Italian sirena carry. The word became a personal name in Spanish and Italian use, and it appears in American records with families from both, and separately with English speakers drawn to the sound.
Meaning
siren, mermaid
From Greek Seiren through Latin sirena; the Greek Sirens were part bird, and the mermaid image is a medieval European reinterpretation. The word also gives English the siren that warns of danger, by a nineteenth-century extension.
How the name formed
- Seiren
- sirena
- Sirena
Related forms: Sirena · Sirena · Seirinis
Pronouncing Sirena
see-REH-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. English speakers often say sy-REE-nah.
Nicknames for Sirena
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 1995136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1251reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- +28.6%45 in 2025, from 35
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.
Sirena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sirena in Spanish — same name
- Sirena in Italian — same name
- Seirinis in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Sirenas among us
people named Sirena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Sirena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sirena
- #3389
- Sirena on the 2025 chart
- #899
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sirena went to 45 girls in 2025, but Syrena is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 61, which makes it the 899th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,490 places above the chart.
- Sirena45
- Syrena16
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Sirena 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 Tuesday test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sirena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tuesday climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tuesday's path sketches the road Sirena is walking now.
Sirena 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 Sirena is headed
Sirena 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.
Sirena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sirena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with three thousand years of literary history behind it.
- Rena is a complete short form that stands on its own.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish and Italian speakers read it correctly at once.
- The English word siren means an alarm as well as a myth, and both will be mentioned.
- The Siri clip now belongs to a piece of software, which is very hard to escape.
- The Sirens of the story lure men to their deaths, which comes with the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sirenas 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 Sirena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sirena?
- Sirena is the most-used spelling in US records — 45 of the 61 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Syrena.
- How popular is the name Sirena in 2025?
- Sirena ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sirena?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Sirena — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sirena with classmates?
- Sirena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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