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Sayori vs Sayra

American parents have registered 1,512 Sayras since 1880, against 331 Sayoris. But in 2025 it was Sayori that was commoner, 49 babies to 16.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sayori Sayra

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 49 years in which either name was published, Sayra for 44 years and Sayori for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sayori Sayra
Total US births 3311,512
Most in one year 12583
Babies in 2025 4916
Estimated living today 3301,500
Median age today 222
Peak year 20232000
Best rank 1,656th girls1,998th girls
Rank in 2025 3,211th6,838th
First recorded 20211973
Girls / boys 331 / 01,512 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Sayras alive today are over 22; half the Sayoris are over 2. That is 20 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: Sayori and Sayra.