Sïä

surname · Latin script

Sïä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay sial.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 180K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 353K
  • BRBrazil1 in 391K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

943 people, 2010

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 180K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Syia in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Malay sial.

Sources 6

  • A Handbook of African Names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The African book of names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sïä counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sïä is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9431 in 353K2.2KSyia42
IN India6311 in 2.1M631—5
BR Brazil5421 in 391K542—38
AR Argentina671 in 679K67—23
FI Finland311 in 180K54—1
CH Switzerland141 in 600K14—2
NO Norway101 in 547K188—1

943 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling sia. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sïä is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Şia, Siã, Sia

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sïä under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sïä mean, and where does it come from?
From Malay sial. Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
In which country does Sïä have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 943 people named Sïä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled syia.
Where is Sïä most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sïä is densest in Finland — about 1 in 180 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sïä?
In the United States, the national register counted 943 people named Sïä in 2010, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sïä”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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