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Sahasra vs Sahily

American parents have registered 1,704 Sahasras since 1880, against 648 Sahilys. Sahasra is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sahasra against Sahily, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sahasra Sahily

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

Of the 21 years in which either name was published, Sahasra for 18 years and Sahily for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Sahasra Sahily
Total US births 1,704648
Most in one year 136131
Babies in 2025 6653
Estimated living today 1,700650
Median age today 113
Peak year 20102024
Best rank 1,593rd girls1,598th girls
Rank in 2025 2,607th3,067th
First recorded 20052008
Girls / boys 1,704 / 0648 / 0

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 Sahasras alive today are over 11; half the Sahilys are over 3. That is 8 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.

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