Sia
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Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sia is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It is written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Malay sial.
- FIFinland1 in 180K◐
- USUnited States1 in 353K
- BRBrazil1 in 391K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- Sources
- 173 ●
- 1 in 180K ◐
across 12 countries
22K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sîą in DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Malay sial.
Sources 6
- A Handbook of African Names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 943 | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 353K | 2.2K | — | 173 |
| IN India | 631△ | 115 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 631 | — | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 542 | 0 rec. | 1 in 391K | 542 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 67 | 0 rec. | 1 in 679K | 67 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 31△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 180K | 54 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 12 rec. | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 11 |
| FR France | 12 | 0 rec. | 1 in 5.7M | 430 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 10△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 547K | 188 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 44 rec. | 1 in 5.6M | 302 | — | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | 8 | 88 rec. | — | — | Sîą | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 4△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 4△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 9.6M | 20 | — | 1 |
Roughly 943 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 353K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 22 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 9 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 17 |
| 2003 | 23 |
| 2004 | 49 |
| 2005 | 58 |
| 2006 | 52 |
| 2007 | 43 |
| 2008 | 54 |
| 2009 | 50 |
| 2010 | 65 |
| 2011 | 57 |
| 2012 | 58 |
| 2013 | 69 |
| 2014 | 66 |
| 2015 | 131 |
| 2016 | 127 |
| 2017 | 136 |
| 2018 | 169 |
| 2019 | 148 |
| 2020 | 174 |
| 2021 | 166 |
| 2022 | 212 |
| 2023 | 169 |
| 2024 | 183 |
| 2025 | 215 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yuen Biaob. 1957CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, stuntman and martial artist
- You Xieb. 1958DEnot in their usual nameChinese-German politician and writer
- Renhōb. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician (born 1967)
- Faye Wongb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
- Xie Junb. 1970CNnot in their usual nameChinese chess player
- Siab. 1975AUAustralian singer and songwriter (born 1975)
- Nicholas Tseb. 1980CAnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer, actor, songwriter and chef (born 1980)
- Hsieh Su-weib. 1986TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese female tennis player
- Sean Tseb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameHong Kong football player (born 1992)
- Kim Si-ab. 2008KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 84 sources across 43 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 332 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sia?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Sia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 943 people bear Sia in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Sia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 180 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Sia mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Malay sial.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sia”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.