Siyah
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- SEE-ya
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Siyah is a name. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
Where does Siyah come from?
Possibly a respelling of Sia; siyah is Persian and Turkish for black
Is Siyah a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Siyah has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US.
How popular is Siyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Siyah, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Siyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 322 girls in the US were given Siyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #808, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
- Siya 304
- Siyah 18
Siyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
Names like Siyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Safa, Naziyah, Aaliyah, Salem, Sariyah, Aziyah, Samiyah, Zaya, Kaliyah, Hadassah
Other spellings of Siyah
Names related to Siyah
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, “Siyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/siyah, updated 20 October 2026.