Saylor
Saylor was given to 1,415 girls in 2025, #217 among girls’ names; 15,362 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,300 Americans named Saylor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saylor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Saylor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Saylor is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “dancer, acrobat” (sailleor).
From Old French sailleor (“dancer, acrobat”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Saylor?
#217 among girls’ names, 2025
Saylor rose from #608 in 2015 to #217 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.27 to 0.88 per 1,000.
1,480 babies in 2023, the peak
Saylor peaked in 2023, when 1,480 babies were given it (1,398 girls, #214 among girls’ names). The 1,472 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,415 | #217 | 0.88 |
| 2024 | 1,341 | #231 | 0.83 |
| 2023 | 1,398 | #214 | 0.87 |
| 2022 | 1,410 | #207 | 0.86 |
| 2021 | 1,193 | #260 | 0.73 |
| 2020 | 1,070 | #304 | 0.66 |
| 2019 | 1,053 | #308 | 0.63 |
| 2018 | 868 | #364 | 0.51 |
| 2017 | 741 | #431 | 0.43 |
| 2016 | 729 | #441 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 480 | #608 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 351 | #800 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 283 | #905 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 222 | #1,120 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 204 | #1,185 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 194 | #1,264 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,348 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,587 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,580 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,372 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 129 | #1,543 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 112 | #1,706 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,883 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,487 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,809 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,920 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,014 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,392 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,453 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,938 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,080 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saylor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,362 Americans recorded as Saylor, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 1,415 girls and 57 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Saylor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saylor, and how old are they?
15,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,362 Americans ever recorded as Saylor. The median Saylor alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 6,657 people named Saylor (6,188 women and girls, 469 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,369 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 75 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,900 |
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).
Where are babies named Saylor born?
The states with the most babies named Saylor are Texas, Florida and North Carolina, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #298 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 96 | #208 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 77 | #129 | 1.5× |
| California | 68 | #496 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 65 | #153 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 59 | #127 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 57 | #64 | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 57 | #226 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 48 | #144 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 44 | #191 | 0.8× |
Where Saylor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saylor is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1917 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Saylor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 20,619 babies since 1880, Saylor is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,472 of their 1,771 babies (83%), 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 Saylor
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 Saylor and names like it
- Compare Saylor and SailorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSaylor peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saylor since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Saylor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Saylor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saylor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.