In 2025, 1,415 US girls were named Saylor, making it the 217th most common girls’ name of the year, up 14 places from #231 in 2024. That is 74 more than the 1,341 girls named Saylor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #207, reached in 2022. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,415, in 2025. For comparison, it was #608 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saylor in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 15,362 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 8,221 babies named Saylor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,218 US girls were named Saylor; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,415. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,136 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saylor ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #47 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Sailor (4,290 babies since 1880) and Sayler (913 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Salar, Zaylor and Sailer are summarised on this page.