Sierra
Sierra is ranked 596th among girls in 2024 (505 births). Its best rank was 49th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #596down 28 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5050.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19985,841 births
- Best rank
- #49in 1999
- Since 1940
- 100,111people given the name
The story in the numbers
100,111 girls have been named Sierra in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 5,841 births — 0.33% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 351 → 596).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 44%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sierra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 144 | |
| 1950s | 54 | |
| 1960s | 81 | |
| 1970s | 787 | |
| 1980s | 8,846 | |
| 1990s | 43,638 | |
| 2000s | 34,532 | |
| 2010s | 9,271 | |
| 2020s | 2,758 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Sierra was the 51st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Sierra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Destiniepeak 1998
- Haleypeak 2000
- Diamondpeak 1999
- Kaytlynpeak 1998
- Cassadypeak 1999
- Kaytlinpeak 1999
- Daishapeak 1995
- Destinepeak 1998
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.