Sisira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SIH-sih-rah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Sisira is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “cool; winter season”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
What does Sisira mean?
Sanskrit: from shishira 'cool; the late winter season'
“cool; winter season”
Shishira is the late-winter season, one of the six seasons of the traditional Hindu calendar.
Is Sisira a girl's or a boy's name?
Sisira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sisira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,553among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Sisira, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had more girls named Sisira than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Sisira in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sisira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
Names like Sisira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura Adhara Sahasra Siya Amora Sahana Samadhi Zhamira Aitana Sama Daleyza Sariyah
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Aadhya Avyaan Ishaan Leena
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sisira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sisira, updated 20 October 2026.