The name Sienna derives from the English word meaning ‘orange-red’. It is ultimately from the name of the city of Siena in Italy, referring to the color of the clay there.
Sienna is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Sienna isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Sienna ranks 188. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Sienna. In the entire USA, approximately 31,490 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sienna. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Sienna derives from the English word meaning ‘orange-red’. It is ultimately from the name of the city of Siena in Italy, referring to the color of the clay there.
Did you know... that the first recorded use of 'sienna' as a name for a color in English was in 1760?
Sienna is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Sienna cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #129 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Sienna, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Sienna seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sienna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Sienna may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Sienna is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,465 women in Nevada is called Sienna. In total, that’s 305 women who feel addressed when the name Sienna is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #356 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Sienna as the answer a total of 31,490 times. This places Sienna at #674 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Sienna as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Sienna is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sienna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sienna, you can simply say:
Sun
Igloo
Elephant
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sienna
Sienna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sienna sounds like this:
