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Syre

Gender
Boy
Say it
SY-er
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#3,035 for boys

Syre is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “lord; father”. In 2025 it ranked 3,035th for boys in the US (40 babies).

What does Syre mean?

English: spelling of Sire

“lord; father”

Is Syre a girl's or a boy's name?

Syre is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 40 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Syre in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,035among boys
Babies in 2025
40about 1 in 43,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 40 boys in the US were named Syre, making it the 3,035th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,291st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 75 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the boys named Syre in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 161 boys in the US were given Syre or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,123, up from #3,035 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 75 in 20212025
Syre in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202540#3,035
202465#2,210
202340#3,053
202270#2,116
202175#1,981
202059#2,291
201960#2,291
201858#2,299
201713#6,334
201615#5,785
201515#5,742
201417#5,248
20138#8,784
201216#5,476
20117#9,593
201014#6,032
200913#6,432
200815#5,762
200716#5,431
20060–
20056#10,144
20047#8,921
20030–
20025#10,660
20018#7,529

Names like Syre

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Syre

Names related to Syre

More English names

Every English name

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, “Syre: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/syre, updated 20 October 2026.