Meaning not yet researched.
Saya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,042 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,042 in 2010; #2,891 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,891 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #2,042.
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Saya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,042 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 98 (2010).
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Saya, making it the 2,891st most common girls’ name of the year, up 491 places from #3,382 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 47 girls named Saya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,042, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #2,522 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saya in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 11 babies. In all, 1,305 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 672 babies named Saya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 451 US girls were named Saya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saya ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,401 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaya (2,590 babies since 1880), Sai (2,159 babies since 1880), Zayah (861 babies since 1880) and Zaia (627 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sayeh and Saiyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sayeh (18), Saiyah (6).
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 Saya 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,401 | #2,018 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,115 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,852 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,999 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,861 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,206 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,931 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,148 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,240 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,660 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,431 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,865 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,949 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,895 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,017 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,431 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,111 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,457 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,917 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,756 | — | — |
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).