girls:
27.5k births since 1978
#859 (85th percentile)
boys:
36 births since 1987
#4550 (1st percentile)
overall:
27.5k births since 1978
#1531 (80th percentile)
The name Cierra is the #1,531 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,539 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 80.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #859 (85.0% percentile) for all time with 27,503 births since 1978. For boys, it ranks #4,550 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1987.
Cierra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for girls and 1987 for boys).
The name Cierra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cierra reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 79.7% percentile (ranked #176) with 878 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 878 births per million (ranked 79.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cierra ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cierra reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 4 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cierra".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Cierra", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 34 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Sierra" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Sierra..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Cierra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.1% confident that Cierra is pronounced as see-EH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-eh-ruh, at 26.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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