Sian

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sian: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sian: Recorded since 1972, it reached #72 in 1997, and it stood at #3,318 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
85times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#72highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#76
1997	#72
1998	#81
1999	#99
2000	#101
2001	#118
2002	#124
2003	#148
2004	#179
2005	#215
2006	#239
2007	#302
2008	#341
2009	#359
2010	#361
2011	#370
2012	#487
2013	#784
2014	#1040
2015	#1088
2016	#1086
2017	#1184
2018	#1436
2019	#1940
2020	#1507
2021	#1785
2022	#2488
2023	#2201
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 29 of the 42 years from 1972 to 2013.

In 2017: #432 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1184 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1972–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1972
First recorded at #471 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1972 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #72 among girls in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sian appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1972, and has registered 153 births with the name.

Sian across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sian's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#471 (1972)	#345 (2006)	#747 (2013)	29 of 42	153 (1972–2013)	11 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#76 (1996)	#72 (1997)	#3318 (2024)	29 of 29	6,016 (1996–2024)	760 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#112 (1997)	#92 (2000)	#432 (2017)	19 of 21	181 (1997–2017)	21 (2000)
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#3449 (2022)	#3449 (2022)	8 of 19	27 (2004–2022)	5 (2022)

Sian by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sian in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	2,676	4 of 10	669
2000sbusiest	2,721	10 of 10	272
2010s	554	10 of 10	55
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 272 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 137, from 661 to 524.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sian appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #72 in England and Wales in 1997.

Sian's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1507	20	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1086	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1040	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#784	49	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#487	90	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#370	127	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#361	125	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#359	121	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#341	132	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#302	155	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#239	196	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#215	223	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#179	281	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#148	328	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#124	376	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#118	399	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#101	510	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#99	524	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#81	661	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#72	760	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#76	731	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#258	7	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#224	8	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#245	7	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#332	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#155	11	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#125	15	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#118	16	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#176	9	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#92	21	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#132	15	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#112	19	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#112	20	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#665	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#549	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#345	11	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	7	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#369	7	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#355	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	7	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#384	6	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	4	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#409	5	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#353	7	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1972 and 2024, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #72, first reached in 1997.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 760 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jocelyn · #69, 48y
Matilde · #76, 40y
Rossa · #76, 48y
Rafal · #79, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Chad · #72, 39y
August · #71, 39y
Kristie · #73, 22y
Jonathon · #74, 43y

Sian was ranked #72 in England and Wales · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sian and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sian without appearing here.

Sian moved ahead of

Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4789.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4001.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4001.
Janet Compare
In 2009 they stood at #439 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #555 and #910.

Moved ahead of Sian

Paula Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1491.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1743.
Jane Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #2341 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #1023.
Jude Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1894.

Moved the opposite way to Sian

Abigail Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 while Abigail went from #332 to #54.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 while Alexandra went from #232 to #90.
Alice Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 while Alice went from #142 to #52.
Amy Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 while Amy went from #224 to #26.

Moved the same way as Sian

Alma Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 and Alma from #332 to #660.
Camilla Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 and Camilla from #300 to #660.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 and Deirdre from #9 to #747.
Diane Compare
Between 1972 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Sian went from #471 to #747 and Diane from #220 to #747.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #72 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sian

Sian at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sian across 4 official records

Sian by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sian appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Sian across 4 official records

Sian by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sian appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Sian

Sian and the names beside it

Sian moved ahead of

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