Sierra

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sierra: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #237, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#237highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3174
1999	#3900
2000	#3247
2003	#4373
2004	#3197
2005	#2084
2006	#1983
2007	#2410
2008	#2487
2009	#1752
2010	#1993
2011	#2636
2012	#1583
2013	#2460
2014	#1562
2015	#1783
2016	#1241
2017	#1568
2018	#1083
2019	#1218
2020	#1044
2021	#828
2022	#910
2023	#647
2024	#826

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland, #826 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2008–2024
Highest recorded position: #237 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2008–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Sierra appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 483 births with the name.

Sierra across 3 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.

Sierra'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
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#647 (2023)	#826 (2024)	26 of 29	483 (1996–2024)	56 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#237 (2023)	#288 (2024)	7 of 17	30 (2008–2024)	7 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#544 (2020)	#544 (2025)	10 of 17	46 (2009–2025)	6 (2011)

Sierra 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 Sierra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	66	8 of 10	8
2010s	192	10 of 10	19
2020sbusiest	214	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 43 births a year.

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

Sierra 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #237 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Sierra'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	#826	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#647	56	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#828	43	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1044	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1218	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1083	32	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1568	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1241	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1583	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #237, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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 4 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.

Bobbie · #238, 30y
Leia · #238, 30y
Zachariah · #236, 30y
Egle · #235, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Iestyn · #237, 29y
John-James · #237, 18y
Lily-May · #237, 30y
Aiza · #236, 27y

Sierra was ranked #237 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Sierra 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 Sierra without appearing here.

Sierra moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1562 and #4684.
George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3197 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2487 and #5545.
Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2487 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1993 and #4688.
Donna Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2636 and #2432 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1583 and #4171.

Moved ahead of Sierra

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1562 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1783 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1083 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1218 and #1063.

Moved the opposite way to Sierra

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Sierra

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sierra went from #3126 to #826 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #237 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sierra

Sierra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sierra across 3 official records

Sierra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sierra appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sierra

Sierra and the names beside it

Sierra moved ahead of

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Sierra at a glance

Sierra across 3 official records

Sierra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sierra appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sierra

Sierra and the names beside it

Sierra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sierra

Moved the opposite way to Sierra

Moved the same way as Sierra