Girl's name
Sienna
Say it see-EN-uh
English origin sienna (colour)
3 syllables
Where Sienna is loved, common and rare
Loved in Victoria and New South Wales. Common across the UK, Ireland, Ontario and five more places. Rare in Switzerland, Norway, Quebec and ten more places.
1 in 166 girls born in England and Wales in 2025
England and Wales 15thScotland 36thNorthern Ireland 46th
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Every place
In 25 of the 40 official lists, among them England and Wales (15th), Scotland (36th) and Northern Ireland (46th).
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| Place | Rank | Girls | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria state | 8th 2025 | 257 | rank only |
| New South Wales state | 10th 2025 | 256 | rank only |
| England and Wales | 15th 2025 | 1,530 | 1 in 166 |
| Queensland state | 19th 2025 | 153 | rank only |
| South Australia state | 19th 2025 | 51 | rank only |
| Scotland | 36th 2025 | 101 | 1 in 177 |
| New Zealand | 40th 2025 | 76 | rank only |
| Northern Ireland | 46th 2025 | 40 | 1 in 182 |
| Ireland | 62nd 2025 | 82 | 1 in 258 |
| Ontario province | 65th 2024 | 137 | about 1 in 398 |
| British Columbia province | 66th 2023 | 37 | about 1 in 323 |
| Catalonia region | 95th 2025 | 44 | 1 in 438 |
| Switzerland | 111th 2025 | 62 | 1 in 548 |
| Norway | 134th 2025 | 41 | 1 in 532 |
| Quebec province | 137th 2025 | 40 | about 1 in 650 |
| Sweden | 283rd 2025 | 26 | about 1 in 1,545 |
| France | 295th 2025 | 180 | 1 in 1,593 |
| The Netherlands | 330th 2025 | 65 | about 1 in 939 |
| Berlin city | 465th 2023 | 6 | about 1 in 2,417 |
| Poland | 498th 2025 | 4 | 1 in 29,947 |
| Austria | 620th 2025 | 7 | 1 in 5,103 |
| Cologne city | 630th 2023 | 1 | about 1 in 6,143 |
| Italy | 954th 2024 | 10 | 1 in 17,917 |
| Leipzig city | 344th 2025 | 1 | about 1 in 2,624 |
| Bonn city | 382nd 2025 | 1 | about 1 in 3,015 |
Rare, below the listed names: Munich, Rostock, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia and Israel.
Not in a short top list, so no figure: Nova Scotia (top 21), Denmark (top 50), Finland (top 50), Iceland (top 10), Estonia (top 25), Moscow (top 61), Turkey (top 30), Argentina (top 20) and Croatia (top 50).
Germany publishes no national statistics on first names. German figures here are city lists (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock), never the country.
Sources: Registry of BDM Victoria (DataVic) (Victoria); NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages (Data.NSW) (New South Wales); Office for National Statistics (England and Wales); Queensland Registry of BDM (Qld Open Data Portal) (Queensland); SA Attorney-General's Department, Births, Deaths and Marriages (data.sa.gov.au) (South Australia); National Records of Scotland (Scotland); Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), SmartStart (New Zealand); NISRA (Northern Ireland); Central Statistics Office (CSO) (Ireland); Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (Ontario); BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (British Columbia); Idescat (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya) (Catalonia); Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) / Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS) (Switzerland); Statistics Norway (SSB) (Norway); Retraite Québec (Banque de prénoms, Données Québec) (Quebec); Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) (Sweden); INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (France); Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) (the Netherlands); BerlinOnline GmbH; Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO) / Standesämter (Berlin); Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL (dane.gov.pl) (Poland); Statistik Austria (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1) (Austria); Stadt Köln, Standesamt (offenedaten-koeln.de) (Cologne); ISTAT, Contanomi (Italy); Stadt Leipzig, Standesamt (opendata.leipzig.de) (Leipzig); Bundesstadt Bonn, Standesamt (opendata.bonn.de) (Bonn). How we count, and every source
About the name
Taken from sienna, the earthy reddish-brown pigment, this is an English colour name with a clear, visual image behind it.
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It has three syllables, see-EN-uh, with the stress in the middle. Siënna is a spelling that marks the separate vowels, and Sianna is a variant.
Sienna is among the leading names in Victoria and New South Wales and ranks high in England and Wales. It is much less common in Catalonia, Switzerland and Norway, though it does appear there. Records from Ontario and British Columbia first show it in 1992, and it is rising in 11 places with no falls recorded, so it is still a name on the way up.
Meaning, origin, pronunciation
- Pronounced
- see-EN-uh, 3 syllables
- Meaning
sienna (colour)
- Origin
- English
- Other spellings
- Sianna
Counted together here: Siënna.
Over time
Over five years: rising in 11 of 21 regions, falling in none.
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Rank in each place since 1996; higher on the chart is more popular.
Ten years of ranks
Her rank each year, English-speaking regions first. A blank means no published rank for her that year.
| Region | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 28 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 15 |
| Scotland | 68 | 33 | 42 | 52 | 50 | 36 | 34 | 47 | 41 | 36 |
| Northern Ireland | 67 | 52 | 69 | 76 | 32 | 49 | 52 | 49 | 30 | 46 |
| Ireland | 71 | 52 | 70 | 81 | 57 | 57 | 44 | 56 | 56 | 62 |
| Ontario | 83 | 87 | 77 | 91 | 78 | 68 | 61 | 80 | 65 | |
| British Columbia | 67 | 80 | 70 | 101 | 80 | 58 | 63 | 66 | ||
| New South Wales | 20 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 13 | 10 |
| Victoria | 24 | 27 | 31 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 8 |
| Queensland | 23 | 29 | 31 | 28 | 42 | 38 | 23 | 40 | 35 | 19 |
| South Australia | 25 | 27 | 33 | 34 | 25 | 25 | 15 | 21 | 37 | 19 |
| New Zealand | 32 | 42 | 52 | 35 | 70 | 35 | 27 | 52 | 27 | 40 |
| Quebec | 344 | 265 | 296 | 251 | 271 | 216 | 328 | 180 | 206 | 137 |
| France | 576 | 483 | 514 | 492 | 432 | 358 | 325 | 344 | 351 | 295 |
| The Netherlands | 412 | 373 | 378 | 481 | 355 | 396 | 353 | 415 | 330 | |
| Austria | 1054 | 1048 | 562 | 1310 | 580 | 758 | 859 | 1011 | 606 | 620 |
| Switzerland | 199 | 282 | 193 | 168 | 172 | 151 | 145 | 142 | 126 | 111 |
| Berlin | 847 | 803 | 491 | 642 | 395 | 969 | 465 | |||
| Munich | 212 | 258 | ||||||||
| Norway | 153 | 174 | 162 | 157 | 129 | 132 | 144 | 126 | 123 | 134 |
| Sweden | 457 | 370 | 506 | 632 | 404 | 325 | 309 | 332 | 313 | 283 |
| Catalonia | 498 | 471 | 343 | 407 | 373 | 297 | 265 | 186 | 193 | 95 |
| Italy | 957 | 715 | 954 | |||||||
| Poland | 500 | 574 | 520 | 456 | 516 | 457 | 475 | 498 |
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
| Year | Rank | Girls | per 100,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | 1,530 | 604.1 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,537 | 595.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,657 | 645.9 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,859 | 705.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,869 | 682.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,638 | 610.3 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,713 | 611.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,834 | 636.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,960 | 655.3 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,815 | 590.9 |
| 2015 | 26 | 1,941 | 630.3 |
| 2014 | 20 | 2,174 | 708.9 |
| 2013 | 22 | 2,211 | 716.8 |
| 2012 | 31 | 1,625 | 504.6 |
| 2011 | 36 | 1,585 | 493.3 |
| 2010 | 47 | 1,386 | 431.7 |
| 2009 | 49 | 1,229 | 392.2 |
| 2008 | 61 | 1,056 | 334.4 |
| 2007 | 63 | 971 | 317.2 |
| 2006 | 69 | 870 | 290.7 |
| 2005 | 70 | 803 | 278.6 |
| 2004 | 155 | 341 | 119.3 |
| 2003 | 427 | 82 | 29.4 |
| 2002 | 490 | 62 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 449 | 68 | 25.4 |
| 2000 | 655 | 38 | 13.9 |
| 1999 | 641 | 38 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 1122 | 18 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 1126 | 17 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 974 | 21 | 7.1 |
Sources: Office for National Statistics (1996-2025), OGL v3.
Ontario and British Columbia since 1925
Half of the babies named Sienna in Ontario and British Columbia since 1925 were born in or after 2013. First recorded in 1992. Her peak year there: 2007, at 392.1 per 100,000 girls.
Babies named Sienna per 100,000 girls born in Ontario and British Columbia, by five-year period. Her 2007 peak is averaged into its five-year period, so the line sits below it.
Sources: Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (1917-2024), OGL-Ontario; BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (1924-2023), OGL-BC.
Sister names for Sienna
1 in 127 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 124 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 143 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 138 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 92 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 142 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 358 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 459 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Sienna. Same first letter as Sienna.
1 in 132 in Northern Ireland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
1 in 109 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Sienna.
Middle names for Sienna
1 in 107 in Northern Ireland
Sienna Charlotte
3-2 beats · initials SC
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 57 in Northern Ireland
Sienna Grace
3-1 beats · initials SG
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 71 in Scotland
Sienna Olivia
3-4 beats · initials SO · Sienna slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 4 syllables. Sienna slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
1 in 86 in Ireland
Sienna Sophie
3-2 beats · initials SS
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 102 in Ireland
Sienna Mia
3-2 beats · initials SM
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 132 in Northern Ireland
Sienna Ruby
3-2 beats · initials SR
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 214 in Northern Ireland
Sienna Rose
3-1 beats · initials SR
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 173 in Northern Ireland
Sienna Nora
3-2 beats · initials SN
Changes the beat after Sienna: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
Same style as Sienna
Names whose popularity rose and fell with hers across regions and decades.
1 in 109 in Ireland
97% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 108 in Scotland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 208 in Northern Ireland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 189 in Ireland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 459 in Scotland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 436 in Scotland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 140 in Northern Ireland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
1 in 197 in Scotland
96% alike: moves with Sienna across countries and decades.
Famous people named Sienna
Sienna Miller, Sienna Guillory and Sienna Spiro.
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British-American actress born 1981
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British actress born 1975
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British singer born 2005
People: Wikidata (CC0), linked to Wikipedia in this page's language when an article exists.
Questions about Sienna
5 questions, on how popular she is, what it means, how to say it, whether she is rising and sister names.
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How popular is Sienna?
Her best rank is No. 8 in Victoria in 2025. She is in the published lists of 25 of our 40 regions.
What does Sienna mean?
Wiktionary glosses Sienna as "sienna (colour)".
How do you pronounce Sienna?
see-EN-uh, with 3 syllables.
Is Sienna getting more popular?
Over five years: rising in 11 of 21 regions, falling in none.
Which sister names go with Sienna?
The deck's top five sisters for Sienna: Evie, Ivy, Willow, Harper and Millie. Each is scored on style, era, popularity and origin, with sound clashes flagged.