Saira
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,645since 1967
Saira over time
Rank among girls' names. Saira has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,011 | 97 |
| 2023 | #2,142 | 89 |
| 2022 | #1,828 | 111 |
| 2021 | #1,698 | 122 |
| 2020 | #2,065 | 89 |
| 2019 | #2,305 | 78 |
| 2018 | #2,302 | 79 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 |
| 2015 | #2,501 | 72 |
| 2014 | #2,497 | 72 |
| 2013 | #2,326 | 79 |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 |
| 2011 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2010 | #2,152 | 91 |
| 2009 | #2,165 | 92 |
| 2008 | #1,949 | 108 |
| 2007 | #2,085 | 97 |
| 2006 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2005 | #1,803 | 108 |
| 2004 | #1,835 | 103 |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 |
| 2001 | #1,585 | 117 |
| 2000 | #1,719 | 102 |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 |
| 1998 | #1,607 | 101 |
| 1997 | #1,864 | 79 |
| 1996 | #1,685 | 90 |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 |
| 1994 | #2,026 | 69 |
| 1993 | #2,090 | 65 |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 |
| 1991 | #2,356 | 54 |
| 1990 | #2,234 | 57 |
| 1989 | #2,096 | 59 |
| 1988 | #2,597 | 41 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #2,545 | 38 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 |
| 1982 | #3,017 | 29 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Saira! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Saira is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,029 · 1 in 5,804
- Washington#1,093 · 1 in 5,904
- New Jersey#1,199 · 1 in 7,285
- North Carolina#1,232 · 1 in 7,513
- Michigan#1,241 · 1 in 7,667
Best ever in a state: #790 in Colorado, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,029 | 14 | 1 in 5,804 |
| Washington | #1,093 | 5 | 1 in 5,904 |
| New Jersey | #1,199 | 5 | 1 in 7,285 |
| North Carolina | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 7,513 |
| Michigan | #1,241 | 5 | 1 in 7,667 |
| California | #1,325 | 19 | 1 in 9,186 |
| Florida | #1,348 | 9 | 1 in 9,289 |
| Texas | #1,399 | 17 | 1 in 9,146 |
| Ohio | #1,459 | 5 | 1 in 9,721 |
| Georgia | #1,484 | 5 | 1 in 9,057 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Saira
- 287 spots since 2024 (#2,011 → #2,298)
- 233 spots since 2020 (#2,065 → #2,298)
- 203 spots since 2015 (#2,501 → #2,298)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2001 at #1,585 (117 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,450 girls born in 2021 were named Saira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,585 in 2001, was only 1 in 15,390 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.4% of all girls named Saira (1,070) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,804 (1967) | #6,804 |
| 1970s | 115 | #4,052 (1979) | #5,410 |
| 1980s | 372 | #2,096 (1989) | #2,712 |
| 1990s | 718 | #1,607 (1998) | #2,018 |
| 2000s | 1,070 | #1,585 (2001) | #1,823 |
| 2010s | 778 | #2,152 (2010) | #2,369 |
| 2020s | 587 | #1,698 (2021) | #2,007 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Saira in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,450 of them was named Saira, which outranked 90.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,680Temperance123
- #1,680Walker123
- #1,680Yuri123
- #1,698Saira122
- #1,698Bree122
- #1,698Danae122
- #1,698Empress122
- #1,710Annalia121
- #1,710Cienna121
- #1,710Emori121
Tied with 11 names at #1,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.