Saint
Saint was given to 1,286 boys in 2025, #267 among boys’ names; 7,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,070 Americans named Saint and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 6.
Saint came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1897 and returned in 2018.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saint by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saint?
#267 among boys’ names, 2025
Saint rose from #2,950 in 2015 to #267 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.75 per 1,000.
1,309 babies in 2025, the peak
Saint peaked in 2025, when 1,309 babies were given it (1,286 boys, #267 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,200 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,286 | #267 | 0.75 |
| 2024 | 1,200 | #282 | 0.70 |
| 2023 | 1,061 | #314 | 0.62 |
| 2022 | 917 | #360 | 0.53 |
| 2021 | 670 | #454 | 0.38 |
| 2020 | 488 | #571 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 328 | #737 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 257 | #859 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,489 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,950 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,358 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,432 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,347 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,330 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,646 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,405 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,691 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,628 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,261 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,547 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,752 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,472 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,414 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,303 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,727 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,760 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,798 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,117 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,431 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,122 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,535 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,958 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,729 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,606 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,205 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,059 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,173 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,279 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,603 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,511 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 7 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 10 | #770 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Saint a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,476 Americans recorded as Saint, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 girls and 1,286 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Saint: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saint, and how old are they?
7,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 7,476 Americans ever recorded as Saint. The median Saint alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 6.
The 2020 Census counted 1,394 people named Saint (100 women and girls, 1,294 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 60 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 219 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,670 |
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 Saint born?
The states with the most babies named Saint are Texas, California and New York, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 188 | #213 | 1.1× |
| California | 113 | #322 | 0.8× |
| New York | 87 | #229 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 83 | #145 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 75 | #276 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 53 | #236 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 49 | #187 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | #272 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 41 | #250 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 40 | #213 | 1.0× |
Where Saint is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saint is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 Saint 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,584 babies since 1880, Saint is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,309 of their 1,316 babies (99%), again the most given.
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 Saint
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 Saint and names like it
- Compare Saint and SanatBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSaint peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saint since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Saint.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saint alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.