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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sierra

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#616

down −20 places

2025 births

476

down −32 births

All-time births

100,597

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1998
5,841 births
Best rank
#49
in 1999
First recorded
1940
#1,344 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2000
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
82 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19985,841#51Peak
  2. 19995,715#49
  3. 19975,688#56
  4. 20005,520#53
  5. 19955,495#60

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #49 in 1999 · peak births 5,841 in 1998

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

269 boys · 100,597 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Sierra has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.