Fun Facts About the Name Sienna
- Gaining ground: Sienna entered the U.S. top 100 in 2025, gaining 45 ranking positions compared with the previous year.
- More than 39 thousand babies named Sienna: U.S. records list 39,876 babies given the name Sienna from 1880 through 2025. Even 10 boys received the name Sienna - about 1 boy for every 3,987 girls.
What Does the Name Sienna Mean?
Sienna is a feminine given name of Italian origin. It is taken from the city of Siena in Tuscany, spelled Sienna in older English writing, so its established sense is "from Siena" or "of Siena." It works as a place name turned personal name, like other names drawn from towns and regions, rather than as a word with a translatable everyday meaning.
The city's own name is older than the given name and comes from its Etruscan predecessor. Roman writers called the town Saena Julia, and the Etruscan root is generally linked to a family or clan name, though the precise meaning is not known. The English color word sienna for the reddish-brown earth pigment also comes from the city, where that clay was obtained; the given name follows the same source and uses the color's spelling with a double n. Sienna is not related to the similar-sounding Sierra, which comes from the Spanish word for a mountain range.
Sienna Name History & Origins
Siena is an old Etruscan settlement in Tuscany that the Romans knew as Saena Julia. In the Middle Ages it grew into a powerful independent city-state and a center of banking, and it is known for the Sienese school of painting, with artists such as Duccio and the Lorenzetti brothers, and for the Palio, the horse race still run in its central square.
Near Siena lay deposits of an iron-oxide earth that produced a warm brown pigment. Artists used it from the Renaissance onward, and the pigment took the city's name, entering English as sienna, sold in the darker "burnt" and lighter "raw" forms. Older English texts often spelled the city itself Sienna.
The personal name is a modern adoption from that place-and-color word. It appears in English-speaking countries, particularly Britain, the United States, and Australia, and became noticeably more common in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The Italian spelling Siena is also used as a given name, but the double-n form follows the English color word.
How Popular is the Name Sienna?
Sienna recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Sienna entered the top 100 U.S. girl names in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #94 | 2,659 | 0.1654% |
| 2024 | #139 | 2,113 | 0.1310% |
| 2023 | #140 | 1,991 | 0.1242% |
| 2022 | #136 | 2,109 | 0.1287% |
| 2021 | #150 | 1,879 | 0.1146% |
| 2020 | #166 | 1,722 | 0.1066% |
| 2019 | #181 | 1,625 | 0.0969% |
| 2018 | #186 | 1,593 | 0.0937% |
| 2017 | #222 | 1,405 | 0.0814% |
| 2016 | #235 | 1,374 | 0.0776% |
| 2015 | #229 | 1,442 | 0.0808% |
| 2014 | #260 | 1,265 | 0.0708% |
| 2013 | #265 | 1,223 | 0.0697% |
| 2012 | #242 | 1,325 | 0.0753% |
| 2011 | #226 | 1,404 | 0.0798% |
| 2010 | #210 | 1,478 | 0.0832% |
| 2009 | #197 | 1,673 | 0.0911% |
| 2008 | #179 | 1,860 | 0.0984% |
| 2007 | #170 | 2,076 | 0.1080% |
| 2006 | #177 | 1,988 | 0.1046% |
| 2005 | #299 | 1,076 | 0.0582% |
| 2004 | #609 | 453 | 0.0247% |
| 2003 | #641 | 415 | 0.0227% |
| 2002 | #663 | 385 | 0.0214% |
| 2001 | #707 | 350 | 0.0194% |
| 2000 | #621 | 409 | 0.0225% |
| 1999 | #592 | 415 | 0.0234% |
| 1998 | #530 | 477 | 0.0270% |
| 1997 | #652 | 339 | 0.0195% |
| 1996 | #815 | 250 | 0.0143% |
| 1995 | #974 | 194 | 0.0110% |
| 1994 | #1,228 | 143 | 0.0080% |
| 1993 | #1,551 | 101 | 0.0056% |
| 1992 | #1,641 | 93 | 0.0050% |
| 1991 | #1,640 | 92 | 0.0049% |
| 1990 | #2,564 | 47 | 0.0025% |
| 1989 | #3,039 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1988 | #2,793 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 1987 | #2,710 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 1986 | #3,745 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1985 | #2,478 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 1984 | #2,904 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 1983 | #3,414 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 1982 | #3,405 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 1981 | #3,722 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 1980 | #3,059 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 1979 | #4,393 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 1978 | #4,059 | 18 | 0.0012% |
| 1977 | #2,985 | 27 | 0.0018% |
| 1976 | #3,515 | 20 | 0.0014% |
| 1975 | #6,392 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1972 | #9,418 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1971 | #8,177 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1969 | #8,507 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1968 | #8,021 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1960 | #6,298 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | #14,045 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #14,305 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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