Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sira comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Sira is a feminine form of SIRO.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sira through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 251
- 0 boys · 251 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #10,013 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +17%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,013 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2016. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 667 as a first name in 2020; 293 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sira’s family of names
In Italian usage, Sira is a feminine form of SIRO. In Greek usage, Sira as a surname is a transliteration of Σίρα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Sidraequivalent
- Sairaequivalent
- Siaraequivalent
- Seraequivalent
- Ziraequivalent
- Ciraequivalent
- Asiraequivalent
- Sirymasculine form
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sira
- Sira RegoSpanish politician affiliated with United Left (IU), MdEPborn 1973
- Sira DiopMali teacher, politician, trade unionist, and feminist (1929–2013)
- Sira SyllaFrench politicianborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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