Sai
Sai was given to 85 boys in 2025, #1,863 among boys’ names; 2,159 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,130 Americans named Sai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sai?
#1,863 among boys’ names, 2025
Sai rose from #2,453 in 2015 to #1,863 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 49.8 per million.
96 babies in 2019, the peak
Sai peaked in 2019, when 96 babies were given it (81 boys, #1,865 among boys’ names). The 93 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,741 | 85 | #1,863 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,598 | 68 | #2,167 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,977 | 72 | #2,075 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,936 | 73 | #2,077 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,382 | 62 | #2,269 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,284 | 71 | #2,018 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,655 | 81 | #1,865 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,699 | 67 | #2,116 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,771 | 52 | #2,482 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,983 | 48 | #2,614 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,674 | 52 | #2,453 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,875 | 53 | #2,421 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,507 | 50 | #2,484 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,138 | 51 | #2,478 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,971 | 56 | #2,308 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,625 | 46 | #2,671 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,765 | 67 | #2,067 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,447 | 59 | #2,254 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,043 | 48 | #2,594 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,427 | 41 | #2,816 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,425 | 42 | #2,640 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,925 | 25 | #3,719 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,563 | 34 | #2,910 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,853 | 31 | #3,000 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,244 | 35 | #2,722 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,863 | 23 | #3,612 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,160 | 39 | #2,331 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,932 | 14 | #4,821 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 18 | #3,848 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,120 | 18 | #3,793 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,255 | 13 | #4,730 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 13 | #4,738 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 18 | #3,620 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 17 | #3,714 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 13 | #4,423 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,565 | 20 | #3,140 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,587 | 26 | #2,525 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,644 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 9 | #4,883 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,579 | 13 | #3,613 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,349 | 9 | #4,625 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,643 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,618 | 12 | #3,586 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,759 | 5 | #7,173 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,831 | 14 | #3,186 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,068 | 8 | #4,862 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,603 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,159 Americans recorded as Sai, 21% are girls and 79% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 85 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sai, and how old are they?
2,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,159 Americans ever recorded as Sai. The median Sai alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 5,716 people named Sai (1,587 women and girls, 4,129 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 268 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 835 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Sai born?
The states with the most babies named Sai are California, New York and Texas, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,350 | 1.1× |
| New York | 10 | #1,194 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,248 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,154 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,511 | 0.3× |
Where Sai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sai is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 1.1 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 Sai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sai
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 Sai and names like it
- Compare Sai and SalahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSai peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sai since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Sai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.