Saira
Saira was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,320 among girls’ names; 3,645 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,590 Americans named Saira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saira?
#2,320 among girls’ names, 2025
Saira rose from #2,521 in 2015 to #2,320 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 40.3 to 49.2 per million.
122 babies in 2021, the peak
Saira peaked in 2021, when 122 girls were given it, #1,707 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,320 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,030 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,154 | 55.5 |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,840 | 67.7 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,707 | 74.4 |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,077 | 55.1 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,326 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,324 | 46.4 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,380 | 44.6 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,263 | 48.0 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,521 | 40.3 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,513 | 40.3 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,341 | 45.0 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,471 | 42.6 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,583 | 39.8 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,163 | 51.2 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,180 | 50.1 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,963 | 57.1 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,098 | 50.5 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,904 | 56.3 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,815 | 58.4 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,849 | 56.1 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,601 | 66.2 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,619 | 64.0 |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,592 | 65.0 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,723 | 56.2 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,932 | 46.2 |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,616 | 57.2 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,875 | 45.4 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,699 | 51.3 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,272 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,037 | 38.6 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,106 | 35.9 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,176 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,376 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,248 | 30.0 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,110 | 32.0 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,627 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,299 | 27.0 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,330 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,582 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,611 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,220 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,073 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,906 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,818 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,184 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,211 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,456 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,303 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,311 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,269 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,526 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,305 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,468 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,791 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,618 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saira, and how old are they?
3,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,645 Americans ever recorded as Saira. The median Saira alive today is 21 years old; half are between 10 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 5,588 people named Saira (5,581 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,042 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 133 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 786 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
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 Saira born?
The states with the most babies named Saira are Texas, New York and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,890 | 1.4× |
| New York | 12 | #1,227 | 1.5× |
| California | 10 | #2,060 | 2.0× |
Where Saira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saira is most over-represented in California: since 1967 it was given 2.0 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 girls’ 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 Saira 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,578,054 babies since 1880, Saira is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 5,314 babies (1.5%), again the fifth 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 Saira
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 Saira and names like it
- Compare Saira and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSaira peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saira since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Saira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.