Sir
#2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 123 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,172since 1967
Sir over time
Rank among boys' names. Sir has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,167 | 66 |
| 2024 | #1,957 | 80 |
| 2023 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,737 | 96 |
| 2021 | #1,461 | 123 |
| 2020 | #1,518 | 110 |
| 2019 | #1,523 | 111 |
| 2018 | #1,530 | 111 |
| 2017 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #2,477 | 51 |
| 2015 | #2,355 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2008 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #2,765 | 43 |
| 2006 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #2,433 | 47 |
| 2004 | #2,489 | 44 |
| 2003 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #2,766 | 26 |
| 1993 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #1,946 | 39 |
| 1989 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #2,437 | 24 |
| 1987 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #1,842 | 30 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #2,284 | 22 |
| 1979 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sir! It came in at #3,966, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Sir is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#856 · 1 in 5,953
- Ohio#869 · 1 in 6,286
- Georgia#1,129 · 1 in 8,657
- North Carolina#1,178 · 1 in 10,030
- Florida#1,197 · 1 in 10,529
Best ever in a state: #629 in Missouri, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Missouri | #856 | 5 | 1 in 5,953 |
| Ohio | #869 | 9 | 1 in 6,286 |
| Georgia | #1,129 | 6 | 1 in 8,657 |
| North Carolina | #1,178 | 5 | 1 in 10,030 |
| Florida | #1,197 | 9 | 1 in 10,529 |
| Texas | #1,205 | 15 | 1 in 11,636 |
| California | #1,736 | 9 | 1 in 22,572 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Sir
- 210 spots since 2024 (#1,957 → #2,167)
- 649 spots since 2020 (#1,518 → #2,167)
- 188 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #2,167)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2021 at #1,461 (123 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,223 boys born in 2021 were named Sir (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.2% of all boys named Sir (613) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,820 |
| 1970s | 110 | #2,279 (1978) | #3,510 |
| 1980s | 212 | #1,842 (1984) | #2,542 |
| 1990s | 283 | #1,823 (1991) | #2,766 |
| 2000s | 384 | #2,392 (2003) | #2,844 |
| 2010s | 613 | #1,523 (2019) | #2,382 |
| 2020s | 559 | #1,461 (2021) | #1,786 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sir in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 16,164 of them was named Sir, which outranked 89.2% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,515Linus112
- #1,515Massiah112
- #1,515Shaya112
- #1,523Sir111
- #1,523Aizen111
- #1,523Ilyas111
- #1,523Ivaan111
- #1,534Damarion110
- #1,534Eitan110
- #1,534Humberto110
Tied with 10 names at #1,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.