Sagar
Sagar was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 1,017 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sagar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sagar?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,673, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1993, the peak
Sagar peaked in 1993, when 58 boys were given it, #1,570 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,673 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,879 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,868 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,410 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,634 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,832 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,989 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,920 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,184 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,689 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,539 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,598 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,816 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,751 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,242 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,861 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,551 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,273 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,014 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,146 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,746 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,037 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,824 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,705 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 58 | #1,570 | 29.6 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,670 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,853 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,355 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 51 | #1,582 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,585 | 24.0 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,727 | 20.9 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,469 | 25.5 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,281 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,603 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,889 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,405 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,871 | 8.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,924 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,585 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,349 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,347 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,336 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sagar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sagar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sagar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sagar, and how old are they?
An estimated 978 Americans named Sagar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 27 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,099 people named Sagar (18 women and girls, 3,081 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 986 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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).
Where are babies named Sagar born?
The states with the most babies named Sagar are New Jersey, California and Illinois, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 129 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| California | 113 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sagar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sagar is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sagar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,130 babies since 1880, Sagar is the most given (90% of them).
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 Sagar
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 Sagar and names like it
- Compare Sagar and SaagarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSagar peaked in 1993.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sagar since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Sagar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sagar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.