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Sierra Say it: see-AIR-uh
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Meaning From Spanish sierra 'mountain range', literally 'saw', from Latin serra .
Certain scholars agree on this meaning.
A 20th-century American place-and-word name, popular in the 1990s.
Its wave through time A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States 0 1 2 3 4 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Peak 1998 per 1,000 babies of that sex 98,150 babies given this name since 1940 At its height in 1998, about 1 in 303 girls 553 babies in 2020 The family of the name Other spellings: Cierra, Siera
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