Saira — #2016 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Saira

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,564 babies named Saira between 1967 and 2024, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Saira currently holds the #2016 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 122 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Saira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,070 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Saira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 958 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Saira in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Saira 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 3,564 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.