Say — unisex name

What the Data Says About Say

The Social Security Administration has registered 62 babies named Say between 1982 and 2021, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Say currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Say is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 30 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Say performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Say shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Say 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 62 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.