Sayra
Sayra was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,085 among girls’ names; 1,512 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Sayra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sayra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sayra?
#7,085 among girls’ names, 2025
Sayra rose from #7,215 in 2015 to #7,085 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 10.0 per million.
83 babies in 2000, the peak
Sayra peaked in 2000, when 83 girls were given it, #2,008 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,085 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,358 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,880 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,148 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,912 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,878 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,970 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,054 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,161 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,367 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,215 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,880 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,122 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,586 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,125 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,245 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,240 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,573 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,773 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,912 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,661 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,701 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,118 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,073 | 46.2 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,533 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,008 | 45.7 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,461 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,057 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,924 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,942 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,174 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,590 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,205 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,558 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,693 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,197 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,478 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,019 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,683 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,073 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,844 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,099 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,610 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,994 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,912 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,477 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,797 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,878 | 7.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,475 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sayra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sayra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sayra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sayra, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,512 Americans ever recorded as Sayra. The median Sayra alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,267 people named Sayra (2,257 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,384 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 306 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 871 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 267 |
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 Sayra born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,723 | 1.4× |
Where Sayra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sayra is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 2.4 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 Sayra 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,577,838 babies since 1880, Sayra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 5,259 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Sayra
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 Sayra and names like it
- Compare Sayra and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSayra peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sayra since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Sayra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sayra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.