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Saylor vs Sayyora

American parents have registered 15,362 Saylors since 1880, against 90 Sayyoras. Saylor is still ahead, with 1,472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saylor against Sayyora, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saylor Sayyora

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

Saylor has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Saylor had 768 and Sayyora had 15.

Side by side

  Saylor Sayyora
Total US births 15,36290
Most in one year 1,48015
Babies in 2025 1,47213
Estimated living today 15,00090
Median age today 54
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 217th girls7,442nd girls
Rank in 2025 217th7,885th
First recorded 19172017
Girls / boys 14,482 / 88090 / 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.

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