Sierra
#614 for girls in 2025, 476 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #12,055
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 5,715 births
- Debut · girls
- 32 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 12 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 100,597since 1940
Sierra over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #614 | 476 | — | |
| 2024 | #593 | 508 | — | |
| 2023 | #566 | 525 | — | |
| 2022 | #551 | 552 | — | |
| 2021 | #508 | 612 | — | |
| 2020 | #531 | 568 | — | |
| 2019 | #497 | 630 | — | |
| 2018 | #452 | 699 | — | |
| 2017 | #449 | 704 | — | |
| 2016 | #424 | 771 | — | |
| 2015 | #404 | 800 | — | |
| 2014 | #350 | 949 | — | |
| 2013 | #342 | 945 | — | |
| 2012 | #278 | 1,170 | — | |
| 2011 | #278 | 1,149 | — | |
| 2010 | #214 | 1,455 | — | |
| 2009 | #196 | 1,676 | — | |
| 2008 | #175 | 1,903 | — | |
| 2007 | #168 | 2,114 | — | |
| 2006 | #140 | 2,466 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #105 | 3,049 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #92 | 3,520 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #73 | 4,242 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #62 | 4,807 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #55 | 5,237 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #53 | 5,520 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #49 | 5,715 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #51 | 5,841 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #56 | 5,688 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #62 | 5,487 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #60 | 5,495 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #71 | 4,853 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #91 | 3,473 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #129 | 2,614 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #138 | 2,302 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #141 | 2,170 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #155 | 1,863 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #181 | 1,550 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #173 | 1,620 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #169 | 1,610 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #216 | 1,198 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #715 | 231 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #804 | 193 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #780 | 210 | — | |
| 1981 | #835 | 187 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #845 | 184 | — | |
| 1979 | #923 | 159 | — | |
| 1978 | #903 | 158 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #1,004 | 134 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #1,237 | 91 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #1,381 | 76 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #1,630 | 57 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,979 | 41 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,874 | 24 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,994 | 19 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,610 | 24 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,313 | 32 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sierra! It came in at #1,313, and was given to 32 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sierra is popular in 1982
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wyoming#161 · 1 in 668
- Nevada#177 · 1 in 795
- Washington#428 · 1 in 2,752
- California#445 · 1 in 2,772
- Oregon#465 · 1 in 3,268
Best ever in a state: #7 in Wyoming, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #161 | 5 | 1 in 668 |
| Nevada | #177 | 6 | 1 in 795 |
| Washington | #428 | 10 | 1 in 2,752 |
| California | #445 | 67 | 1 in 2,772 |
| Oregon | #465 | 5 | 1 in 3,268 |
| Virginia | #568 | 6 | 1 in 5,133 |
| Colorado | #571 | 5 | 1 in 4,410 |
| Arizona | #585 | 5 | 1 in 4,033 |
| New Jersey | #813 | 5 | 1 in 7,653 |
| Ohio | #823 | 7 | 1 in 10,210 |
| Michigan | #827 | 6 | 1 in 9,602 |
| Florida | #865 | 7 | 1 in 8,101 |
| Illinois | #910 | 8 | 1 in 9,303 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,015 | 5 | 1 in 13,980 |
| Texas | #1,259 | 9 | 1 in 14,436 |
| New York | #1,620 | 5 | 1 in 20,549 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sierra
- 21 spots since 2024 (#593 → #614)
- 83 spots since 2020 (#531 → #614)
- 210 spots since 2015 (#404 → #614)
- Biggest jump: 499 spots in 1985 (#715 → #216)
- Biggest drop: 64 spots in 2011 (#214 → #278)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1999 at #49 (5,715 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 12 yrs · run 1993–2004
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1978–2025
- Highest: 1 in 303 girls born in 1998 were named Sierra (0.33%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,377 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #49 in 1999, was only 1 in 310 (0.32%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.4% of all girls named Sierra (43,638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 144 | #1,313 (1940) | #2,616 |
| 1950s | 54 | #4,278 (1954) | #4,920 |
| 1960s | 81 | #3,211 (1967) | #4,893 |
| 1970s | 787 | #903 (1978) | #1,769 |
| 1980s | 8,846 | #155 (1989) | #487 |
| 1990s | 43,638 | #49 (1999) | #85 |
| 2000s | 34,534 | #53 (2000) | #112 |
| 2010s | 9,272 | #214 (2010) | #369 |
| 2020s | 3,241 | #508 (2021) | #561 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sierra in 1982
Top girls' names in 1982
More about 1982
girls
1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 8,063 of them was named Sierra, which outranked 93.7% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).