Sayuri
Sayuri was given to 76 girls in 2025, #2,380 among girls’ names; 1,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Sayuri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sayuri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sayuri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sayuri is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sayuri?
#2,380 among girls’ names, 2025
Sayuri rose from #3,085 in 2015 to #2,380 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.8 to 47.3 per million.
106 babies in 2007, the peak
Sayuri peaked in 2007, when 106 girls were given it, #1,953 among girls’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,380 | 47.3 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,748 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,516 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,096 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,332 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,243 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,425 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,550 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,752 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,219 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,085 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,608 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,967 | 32.5 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,763 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,253 | 47.8 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,251 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,334 | 45.7 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,091 | 51.8 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,953 | 55.1 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,535 | 38.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,203 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,181 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,524 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,198 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,960 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,949 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,682 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,839 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,391 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,616 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,454 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,564 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,936 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,779 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,081 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,581 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,340 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,086 | 2.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,533 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sayuri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sayuri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sayuri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sayuri, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,424 Americans ever recorded as Sayuri. The median Sayuri alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,678 people named Sayuri (1,668 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 78 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 706 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 623 |
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 Sayuri born?
The states with the most babies named Sayuri are Texas, New York and California, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,364 | 1.0× |
| New York | 9 | #1,508 | 0.7× |
| California | 8 | #2,456 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,432 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,327 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,351 | 0.1× |
Where Sayuri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sayuri is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 1.4 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 Sayuri 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 7,862 babies since 1880, Sayuri is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 286 babies (27%), the 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 Sayuri
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 Sayuri and names like it
- Compare Sayuri and SariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSayuri peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sayuri since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Sayuri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Sayuri.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sayuri alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.