Saro — boys' name
16 babies named Saro in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
69% of everyone ever named Saro was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Saro in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Saro
The Social Security Administration has registered 16 babies named Saro between 1980 and 2004, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Saro currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Saro performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Saro shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Saro in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Saro 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 16 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.
Saro at a glance
Last recorded 2004Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Saro popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2004–1980
- Peak year (1980)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2004.
16 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 6 births in a single year.
Saro by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 11 births that decade — 69% of Saro's all-time total
Saro decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Saro's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 69% of all-time use.
Saro by state
Where Saro concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 62.5% |
10 of 16 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 62.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 62.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2004 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.