Sai
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,852 for boys in 2025, 85 births
Given to boys 78.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 81 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,696since 1972
Sai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,852 | 85 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #2,156 | 68 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #2,064 | 72 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,060 | 73 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #1,996 | 71 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #2,101 | 67 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #2,402 | 53 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #2,284 | 56 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #2,050 | 67 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #2,564 | 48 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #4,495 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sai! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Sai
- 304 spots since 2024 (#2,156 → #1,852)
- 144 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #1,852)
- 577 spots since 2015 (#2,429 → #1,852)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2019 at #1,849 (81 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,095 boys born in 2025 were named Sai (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,849 in 2019, was only 1 in 22,151 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.8% of all boys named Sai (556) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1982, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 116 | #2,469 (1989) | #4,080 |
| 1990s | 183 | #2,300 (1999) | #3,781 |
| 2000s | 405 | #2,050 (2009) | #2,789 |
| 2010s | 556 | #1,849 (2019) | #2,364 |
| 2020s | 431 | #1,852 (2025) | #2,064 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sai in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 198,344 of them was named Sai, which outranked 43.2% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,148Zyan10
- #10,148Zyann10
- #10,148Zykeria10
- #10,866Sai9
- #10,866Aadrika9
- #10,866Aalaya9
- #10,866Aalaysia9
- #11,835Aadhira8
- #11,835Aakriti8
- #11,835Aalayiah8
Tied with 968 names at #10,866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 36,860 of them was named Sai, which outranked 82.7% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,412Rustin53
- #2,412Shaya53
- #2,412Tavon53
- #2,429Sai52
- #2,429Aleksandr52
- #2,429Basil52
- #2,429Bayne52
- #2,457Akshaj51
- #2,457Alen51
- #2,457Ames51
Tied with 27 names at #2,429; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.