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Sayde vs Sayler

American parents have registered 913 Saylers since 1880, against 725 Saydes. Sayler is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sayde against Sayler, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sayde Sayler

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 38 years in which either name was published, Sayde for 23 years and Sayler for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Sayde Sayler
Total US births 725913
Most in one year 4773
Babies in 2025 753
Estimated living today 710910
Median age today 178
Peak year 20092020
Best rank 3,460th girls2,779th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd3,249th
First recorded 18961992
Girls / boys 725 / 0854 / 59

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 Saydes alive today are over 17; half the Saylers are over 8. That is 9 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: Sayde and Sayler.