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Sahily vs Sahir

American parents have registered 931 Sahirs since 1880, against 648 Sahilys. But in 2025 it was Sahily that was commoner, 53 babies to 43.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sahily Sahir

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 34 years in which either name was published, Sahir for 26 years and Sahily for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Sahily Sahir
Total US births 648931
Most in one year 13164
Babies in 2025 5343
Estimated living today 650920
Median age today 310
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 1,598th girls2,236th boys
Rank in 2025 3,067th2,884th
First recorded 20081980
Girls / boys 648 / 00 / 931

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 Sahirs alive today are over 10; half the Sahilys are over 3. That is 7 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: Sahily and Sahir.