Saja
Saja was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,052 among girls’ names; 1,018 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Saja 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 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saja?
#4,052 among girls’ names, 2025
Saja rose from #4,056 in 2015 to #4,052 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 22.4 per million.
46 babies in 2020, the peak
Saja peaked in 2020, when 46 girls were given it, #3,388 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,052 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,022 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,573 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,360 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,813 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,388 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,773 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,831 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,614 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,417 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,056 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,087 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,624 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,769 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,035 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,939 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,086 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,989 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,363 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,551 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,223 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,681 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,188 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,234 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,803 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,628 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,135 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,339 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,344 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,475 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,020 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,920 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,348 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,586 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,228 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,567 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,038 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,796 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saja, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,018 Americans ever recorded as Saja. The median Saja alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,048 people named Saja (1,017 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 76 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 451 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 481 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,319 babies since 1880, Saja is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 57 babies (63%), 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 Saja
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 Saja and names like it
- Compare Saja and SajeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSaja peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saja since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Saja.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saja alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.