Sierra

girls:

99.6k births since 1940

#370 (94th percentile)

boys:

269 births since 1975

#4317 (6th percentile)

overall:

99.9k births since 1940

#684 (91st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sierra".

1940 2023 19402023

Key Statistics

Total Births
99,594
Peak Births
5,840
Peak Year
1999
First Recorded
1940
Peak Percentile
94.6%
Current Percentile
48.2%
Peak Rank
#49
Current Rank
#491
Female statistics
Total Births
269
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
1994
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
1.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#656
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sierra

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sierra. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 58.7% confident that Sierra is pronounced as see-EH-ruh. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-eh-ruh, at 23.9% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.