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Saachi vs Saad

American parents have registered 2,476 Saads since 1880, against 547 Saachis. Saad is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saachi against Saad, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saachi Saad

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Saad has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Saachi had 21 and Saad had 45.

Side by side

  Saachi Saad
Total US births 5472,476
Most in one year 2982
Babies in 2025 1459
Estimated living today 5402,400
Median age today 1218
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 4,755th girls1,799th boys
Rank in 2025 7,491st2,332nd
First recorded 19941973
Girls / boys 547 / 00 / 2,476

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Saads alive today are over 18; half the Saachis are over 12. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Saachi Saad
England and Wales 1911,207

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Saachi and Saad.