Entry № 9671 · Italian origin

Siena Siena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ see-EN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Reddish-brown earth (the Tuscan city + Siena Miller)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "reddish-brown earth (the tuscan city + siena miller)".

Siena is from the Italian city of Siena in Tuscany — also the burnt-sienna color (the deep reddish-brown derived from the natural earth pigments mined near the city). A top-500 US baby name since 2012. Siena Heights University — Michigan Catholic university.

and modern American naming.

Reddish-brown earth (the Tuscan city + Siena Miller) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Siena
Transliteration
Siena
Pronunciation
/ siˈɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Siena stands.

Siena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sienas before her.

Real people
Saint Catherine of Siena
Doctor of the Catholic Church.
1347 – 1380
In fiction
Siena
The Tuscan city.

Names connected to Siena.

The number behind Siena.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Siena reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.