Sayori
Sayori was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,244 among girls’ names; 331 Americans have been recorded with it since 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sayori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sayori mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sayori is “a transliteration of the Japanese female given name 小夜里.”
Transliteration of Japanese 小夜里 (Sayori).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sayori?
#3,244 among girls’ names, 2025
Sayori entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #3,244 in 2025.
125 babies in 2023, the peak
Sayori peaked in 2023, when 125 girls were given it, #1,665 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,244 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,381 | 47.5 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,665 | 77.9 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,642 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,998 | 22.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sayori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sayori has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 5 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sayori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sayori, and how old are they?
An estimated 329 Americans named Sayori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (over 99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 3. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,911 babies since 1880, Sayori is the fifth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 278 babies (18%), the fourth 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 Sayori
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 Sayori and names like it
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