Saia
Saia was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,258 among girls’ names; 227 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saia?
#8,258 among girls’ names, 2025
Saia rose from #16,081 in 2015 to #8,258 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 8.1 per million.
19 babies in 2017, the peak
Saia peaked in 2017, when 19 babies were given it (12 girls, #9,249 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,258 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,341 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,410 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,556 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,570 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,938 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,018 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,081 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,249 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,860 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,081 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,799 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,187 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,104 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,559 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,307 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,962 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,966 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,465 | 5.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,255 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,342 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 227 Americans recorded as Saia, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Saia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saia, and how old are they?
An estimated 225 Americans named Saia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 290 people named Saia (172 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 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).
How common is the spelling Saia?
Saia is a less common spelling of Saya: SSA has recorded 227 Saia and 1,305 Saya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,425 babies since 1880, Saia is the third most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 114 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Saia
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 Saia and names like it
- Compare Saia and SayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSaia peaked in 2017.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Saia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.