Fun Facts About the Name Sira
- 251 babies named Sira: U.S. records list 251 babies given the name Sira from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Sira Mean?
Sira is a feminine name with more than one independent origin. In Arabic, sīra (سيرة) means "way of life," "conduct," or "biography," and it is the word used for the traditional written biographies of the Prophet Muhammad. In Italian and Spanish, Sira is the feminine counterpart of Siro, which descends from the Latin Syrus, feminine Syra, an ethnic term for a person from Syria; taken literally, that strand of the name means "Syrian woman." The Finnish name Sira is usually described as a short form or variant of Siiri, the Finnish form of Sigrid, but that link is not firmly documented, and the meaning of Sira in Finnish use is uncertain.
Sira Name History & Origins
The Arabic word sīra became the name of a literary genre in early Islam: the biographical accounts of Muhammad's life. The best-known early example is the Sīrat Rasūl Allāh, compiled by Ibn Ishaq in the eighth century and surviving in the later recension of Ibn Hisham. Sira is used as a girl's name in Arabic-speaking countries and among some Muslim families, drawing on the word's sense of conduct or way of life rather than on a separate name root.
Around the northern Mediterranean, Sira has a different background. Latin speakers used Syrus and its feminine Syra as an ethnic byname for someone from Syria, and the form passed into Italian and Spanish, where Siro became a male given name and Sira its female counterpart. Saint Syrus, known in Italian as San Siro, is venerated as an early bishop of Genoa and of Pavia, and the masculine name stayed in use in northern Italy, with Sira beside it.
In Finland, Sira is an uncommon feminine name, often listed alongside Siiri and similar names, though no firm documentary line traces it to a single parent name.
The element Sira appears much earlier as a personal name in Jewish antiquity: the author of the Hebrew wisdom book known as Ben Sira, or Sirach, written around the second century BCE, is named in the text as Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira. The meaning of that Hebrew name is unknown, and it is not evidence for the origin of the modern name Sira.
Modern readers may know the name from Sira Quiroga, the narrator of María Dueñas's novel El tiempo entre costuras (2009), set in Spain and Morocco. The character carries a name already current in Spanish; the novel is a literary appearance, not the name's source.
How Popular is the Name Sira?
Sira has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #7,931 in 2016.
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 | #10,013 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #10,940 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #10,204 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #8,461 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2021 | #8,899 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #11,251 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #9,076 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #10,594 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #7,931 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #14,303 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #16,245 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #11,846 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #9,638 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2011 | #16,504 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #16,701 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #9,901 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #10,000 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #20,140 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #9,829 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #9,371 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2004 | #11,490 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #13,644 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #13,427 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #17,588 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #14,769 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #10,225 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #9,703 | 9 | 0.0005% |
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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How the Name Sira Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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