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Saoirse: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 222 in 2025. Its best rank was #735 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #735 in 2020; #1,089 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saoirse in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,089 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #735.
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Saoirse: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 222 girls in 2025. Peak: #735 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 373 (2020).
In 2025, 222 US girls were named Saoirse, making it the 1,089th most common girls’ name of the year, down 58 places from #1,031 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 245 girls named Saoirse in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #735, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 373. For comparison, it was #1,451 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saoirse in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 5 babies. In all, 4,068 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,853 babies named Saoirse.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,987 US girls were named Saoirse; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 373. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,240 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saoirse ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #442 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 13 | #442 | #734 |
| Oregon | 7 | #539 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #693 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #695 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #773 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #776 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #847 | #1,423 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #863 | #1,215 |
| Maryland | 5 | #974 | #876 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,026 | #921 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,108 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,126 | #1,557 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,145 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,145 | #1,059 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,418 | #1,055 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,519 | #2,557 |
| California | 15 | #1,564 | #1,715 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,851 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 222 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2024 | 245 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 2023 | 272 | #959 | — | — |
| 2022 | 312 | #894 | — | — |
| 2021 | 344 | #812 | — | — |
| 2020 | 373 | #735 | — | — |
| 2019 | 334 | #819 | — | — |
| 2018 | 331 | #822 | — | — |
| 2017 | 276 | #962 | — | — |
| 2016 | 278 | #970 | — | — |
| 2015 | 159 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,722 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,471 | — | — |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,210 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,262 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,284 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,160 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,317 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,644 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,484 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,263 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,295 | — | — |
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).