Syrena
Feminine · “calm”
Serena and Siren mean opposite things. Latin serenus is clear and calm, of weather; Greek Seiren is one of the bird-women whose song draws sailors onto rocks. Syrena's y pulls a word for calm toward a word for a fatal noise.
How old is the name Syrena?
Syrena first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Syrena alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 700 people named Syrena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Syrena most popular?
Syrena peaked in 1968, reaching #4779 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 2,059 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From serenus to Syrena
The story of Syrena
Serena was a late Roman name, borne by the niece of the emperor Theodosius, and passed into Christian use through a saint of the name. It has been in steady English use since the sixteenth century. Sirens meanwhile are the singers of the twelfth book of the Odyssey, who Homer describes as knowing everything that happens on earth; the modern warning device is named after them. The Syrena spelling with a y appears in American records from the mid-twentieth century and had its best year in 1968, and it also happens to be the Polish word for a mermaid, which is the emblem of Warsaw.
Meaningscholars disagree
calm, clear, serene
Serena is from Latin serenus, clear or fair, used of weather and of temperament, and gives English serene. Seiren, the Greek siren, is a separate word of unknown origin and names a creature whose song is lethal. The y of this spelling belongs to the second and the sound to the first, and either reading is available to a bearer.
How the name formed
- serenus
- Serena
- Syrena
Related forms: Serena · Serena · Syrena · Sirena
Pronouncing Syrena
suh-REE-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Identical to Serena; the y changes nothing in sound and a great deal in what a reader thinks of.
Nicknames for Syrena
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 201226 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4779reached in 1968
- Change vs 2024
- +77.8%16 in 2025, from 9
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.
Syrena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Serena in English — spelling variant
- Serena in Italian — same name
- Syrena in Polish — related form
- Sirena in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Syrenas among us
people named Syrena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Syrena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Syrena
- #6838
- Syrena on the 2025 chart
- #899
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Syrena went to 16 girls in 2025, but Sirena 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 — 5,939 places above the chart.
- Sirena45
- Syrena16
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Syrena 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 Allis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Syrena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Allis climbed just as high around 1947, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Allis's path sketches the road Syrena is walking now.
Syrena 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
Syrena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Syrena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Latin meaning that can be given in one word.
- Rena is a ready short form with its own history.
- The y makes it visually distinctive without changing the sound.
- Serena is the standard spelling by a very wide margin.
- The y suggests the siren, which means something quite different.
- Sirena and Syrena both circulate and are read differently.
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Frequently asked
- How many Syrenas 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 Syrena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Syrena?
- Syrena is one of 2 recorded spellings. Sirena is the more common one — 45 births in 2025 against 16 for Syrena.
- How popular is the name Syrena in 2025?
- Syrena ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Syrena?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Syrena — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Syrena with classmates?
- Syrena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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