Saya
#2,859 for girls in 2025, 59 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 98 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,305since 1990
Saya over time
Rank among girls' names. Saya has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,859 | 59 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 |
| 2015 | #2,501 | 72 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 |
| 2012 | #2,568 | 70 |
| 2011 | #2,434 | 75 |
| 2010 | #2,028 | 98 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 |
| 2008 | #2,887 | 61 |
| 2007 | #3,983 | 39 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
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| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Saya! It came in at #7,303, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Saya
- 476 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #2,859)
- 1,898 spots since 2020 (#4,757 → #2,859)
- 358 spots since 2015 (#2,501 → #2,859)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2010 at #2,028 (98 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,139 girls born in 2010 were named Saya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,242 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.5% of all girls named Saya (672) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 89 | #5,661 (1999) | #8,953 |
| 2000s | 310 | #2,614 (2009) | #5,153 |
| 2010s | 672 | #2,028 (2010) | #2,673 |
| 2020s | 234 | #2,859 (2025) | #3,946 |
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.
Saya in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 28,127 of them was named Saya, which outranked 85.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,697Wesley64
- #2,697Xyla64
- #2,697Yahaira64
- #2,739Saya63
- #2,739Aashvi63
- #2,739Aliyanna63
- #2,739Alyssia63
- #2,761Aaria62
- #2,761Anderson62
- #2,761Annalyse62
Tied with 21 names at #2,739; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.