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Saya vs Sayvon

American parents have registered 1,305 Sayas since 1880, against 245 Sayvons. Saya is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Saya Sayvon

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 36 years in which either name was published, Saya for 31 years and Sayvon for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Saya Sayvon
Total US births 1,305245
Most in one year 9828
Babies in 2025 596
Estimated living today 1,300240
Median age today 1225
Peak year 20101994
Best rank 2,028th girls2,618th boys
Rank in 2025 2,859th10,695th
First recorded 19901993
Girls / boys 1,305 / 00 / 245

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 Sayvons alive today are over 25; half the Sayas are over 12. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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