Sael
Sael was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,532 among boys’ names; 320 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sael?
#2,532 among boys’ names, 2025
Sael rose from #10,410 in 2015 to #2,532 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 31.0 per million.
53 babies in 2025, the peak
Sael peaked in 2025, when 53 boys were given it, #2,532 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 29 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #2,532 | 31.0 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,878 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,692 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,590 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,897 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,399 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,540 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,505 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,702 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,511 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,410 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,456 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,603 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,997 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,950 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,478 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,183 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,218 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,077 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,381 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #7,012 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,764 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,620 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sael, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Sael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 301 people named Sael (23 women and girls, 278 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 50,773 babies since 1880, Sael is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 688 babies (7.7%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sael and names like it
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