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Sayuri vs Sayyora

American parents have registered 1,424 Sayuris since 1880, against 90 Sayyoras. Sayuri is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sayuri against Sayyora, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sayuri 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

Sayuri has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Sayuri had 41 and Sayyora had 15.

Side by side

  Sayuri Sayyora
Total US births 1,42490
Most in one year 10615
Babies in 2025 7613
Estimated living today 1,40090
Median age today 144
Peak year 20072017
Best rank 1,940th girls7,442nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,368th7,885th
First recorded 19792017
Girls / boys 1,424 / 090 / 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 Sayuris alive today are over 14; half the Sayyoras are over 4. That is 10 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: Sayuri and Sayyora.