Saffron — #5470 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Saffron

The Social Security Administration has registered 709 babies named Saffron between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Saffron currently holds the #5470 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 36 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Saffron performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 261 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Saffron shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 50 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Saffron in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Saffron in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 709 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.