Sire
- #1,466 for boys in 2025, 121 births
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 153 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,715since 1998
Sire over time
Rank among boys' names. Sire 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 | #1,466 | 121 |
| 2024 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #1,449 | 125 |
| 2022 | #1,237 | 159 |
| 2021 | #1,291 | 147 |
| 2020 | #1,225 | 153 |
| 2019 | #1,441 | 121 |
| 2018 | #1,418 | 123 |
| 2017 | #1,575 | 103 |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 98 |
| 2015 | #1,853 | 79 |
| 2014 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #2,225 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #3,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
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| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sire! It came in at #8,479, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sire is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#756 · 1 in 4,185
- Alabama#765 · 1 in 4,304
- New Jersey#915 · 1 in 6,628
- Pennsylvania#1,094 · 1 in 8,710
- Ohio#1,111 · 1 in 8,756
Best ever in a state: #531 in Georgia, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #756 | 12 | 1 in 4,185 |
| Alabama | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,304 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,628 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| Ohio | #1,111 | 6 | 1 in 8,756 |
| Michigan | #1,113 | 5 | 1 in 8,039 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 6 | 1 in 8,578 |
| Texas | #1,415 | 13 | 1 in 13,465 |
| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
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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 Sire
- 207 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #1,466)
- 241 spots since 2020 (#1,225 → #1,466)
- 387 spots since 2015 (#1,853 → #1,466)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2020 at #1,225 (153 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,981 boys born in 2022 were named Sire (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,116 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,225 in 2020, was only 1 in 11,282 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.9% of all boys named Sire (805) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 14 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,809 |
| 2000s | 135 | #3,162 (2009) | #6,733 |
| 2010s | 761 | #1,418 (2018) | #2,161 |
| 2020s | 805 | #1,225 (2020) | #1,390 |
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.
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