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Girl · Spanish
Cierra
Say it: see-AIR-uh
Meaning
A respelling of Sierra, from Spanish sierra 'mountain range'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in the US in the 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 27,408 babies given this name since 1978
- At its height in 1997, about 1 in 1,000 girls
- 52 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Sierra, Ciera
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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