Sayla
Sayla was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,296 among girls’ names; 896 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sayla?
#2,296 among girls’ names, 2025
Sayla rose from #5,801 in 2015 to #2,296 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 49.8 per million.
85 babies in 2024, the peak
Sayla peaked in 2024, when 85 girls were given it, #2,230 among girls’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,296 | 49.8 |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,230 | 52.5 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,465 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,116 | 32.3 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,061 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,141 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,013 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,439 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,761 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,966 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,801 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,879 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,864 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,228 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,895 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,082 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,355 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,763 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,049 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,782 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,806 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,450 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,522 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,336 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,249 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,425 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,158 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,943 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,837 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,017 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,911 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,766 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,648 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sayla, and how old are they?
An estimated 889 Americans named Sayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 3 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 583 people named Sayla (566 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 528 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 208,556 babies since 1880, Sayla is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 375 babies (21%), again the second 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 Sayla
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.
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