Syria

Peak · girls
2004 · 41 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
567
since 1948

Syria over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Syria has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,566, 2004girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025—
2024#15,2935
2023#13,4626
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2021#12,2067
2020#11,0908
2019#13,7996
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2017#10,6899
2016#10,8599
2015#8,44713
2014#6,20720
2013#5,83422
2012#6,87218
2011#6,14821
2010#5,41425
2009#4,10737
2008#4,08938
2007#5,52625
2006#6,84018
2005#5,43723
2004#3,56641
2003#4,66827
2002#5,89719
2001#6,06718
2000#7,15814
1999#9,4799
1998#8,01611
1997#9,8028
1996#5,53117
1995#13,3865
1994#9,5868
1993#13,4425
1992#9,4918
1991#8,5889
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1989#10,8476
1988#10,3866
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1983#8,0477
1982#10,5175
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First appearance
1948

The first year at least five girls were named Syria! It came in at #4,651, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Syria is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Syria in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Syria
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
56 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1948
  • Peaked 2004 at #3,566 (41 births)
  • Births halved by 2006, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 44,787
  • Highest: 1 in 44,787 girls born in 2004 were named Syria (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 45.9% of all girls named Syria (260) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s6#4,651 (1948)#4,651
1950s0——
1960s5#6,539 (1965)#6,539
1970s18#6,900 (1974)#8,422
1980s29#8,047 (1983)#10,044
1990s80#5,531 (1996)#9,702
2000s260#3,566 (2004)#5,336
2010s143#5,414 (2010)#8,252
2020s26#11,090 (2020)#13,013

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.

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