Boys' name · since 2017
Saayan
Saayan has 30 recorded births since 2017 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,929 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,685 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Saayan currently ranks #11685 among boys' names in America, with 30 babies recorded since 2017.
Saayan has 30 recorded births among boys since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11685 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #25,929 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #11,685 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 30 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Saayan ranks #25,929 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,685 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 30 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,929 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,685 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 30
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Saayan's 30 recorded births place it above 42.89% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Saayan compares
30 11th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Saayan's all-time total is 92% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Saayan | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 30 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 34 | 22,252 |
Saayan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Saayan's full recorded timeline at 2023, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Saayan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Saayan by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 83% of the file).
2020s was Saayan's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Saayan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (83% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Saayan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.