girls:
2.5k births since 1983
#3445 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1983
#5316 (31st percentile)
The name Siera is the #5,316 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,528 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 31.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,445 (39.7% percentile) for all time with 2,528 births since 1983.
Siera first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (first recorded for girls in 1983). Birth data for Siera is available in 37 out of the 40 years between 1983 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Siera reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 16.8% percentile (ranked #715) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 78 births per million (ranked 16.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Siera".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Siera. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Siera is pronounced as see-EH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-eh-ruh, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S IY0 EH1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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