Meaning not yet researched.
Saira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,593 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,593 in 2001; #2,320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,320 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,593.
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Saira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,593 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 122 (2021).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Saira, making it the 2,320th most common girls’ name of the year, down 290 places from #2,030 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 97 girls named Saira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,593, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 2021. For comparison, it was #2,521 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saira in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 3,645 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,070 babies named Saira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 906 US girls were named Saira; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saira ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,227 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Zaira (4,986 babies since 1880), Siara (2,132 babies since 1880) and Sarah (1,101,838 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Saira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,227 | #1,590 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,890 | #2,554 |
| California | 10 | #2,060 | #1,804 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,819 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,185 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,457 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,305 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,528 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,307 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,470 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,792 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,619 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).