Name meaning & stats
Sierra
Sierra means “mountain range”. 100,866 US babies since 1940, peak 1998.
What it means
“mountain range”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1998
100,866 US babies were named Sierra between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Sierra (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 65% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1998)