Sayge vs Sayler
American parents have registered 913 Saylers since 1880, against 676 Sayges. Sayler is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Sayge 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 31 years in which either name was published, Sayler for 20 years and Sayge for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
Side by side
| Sayge | Sayler | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 676 | 913 |
| Most in one year | 48 | 73 |
| Babies in 2025 | 37 | 53 |
| Estimated living today | 670 | 910 |
| Median age today | 11 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 2020 |
| Best rank | 3,765th girls | 2,779th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,460th | 3,249th |
| First recorded | 1996 | 1992 |
| Girls / boys | 543 / 133 | 854 / 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 Sayges alive today are over 11; half the Saylers are over 8. That is 3 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: Sayge and Sayler.