Saroya
Saroya was given to 143 girls in 2025, #1,497 among girls’ names; 257 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saroya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saroya?
#1,497 among girls’ names, 2025
Saroya rose from #18,665 in 2015 to #1,497 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 89.0 per million.
143 babies in 2025, the peak
Saroya peaked in 2025, when 143 girls were given it, #1,497 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 42 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 143 | #1,497 | 89.0 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,686 | 25.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,350 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,106 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,014 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,665 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,085 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,099 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,935 | 6.0 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,024 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #10,365 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,990 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,758 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,361 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saroya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saroya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saroya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saroya, and how old are they?
An estimated 254 Americans named Saroya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 1 year old and half are between 1 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 145 people named Saroya (145 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 451,763 babies since 1880, Saroya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 143 of their 2,449 babies (5.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Saroya
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 Saroya and names like it
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