Meaning not yet researched.
Sayra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,012 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,012 in 2000; #7,087 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sayra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,087 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #2,012.
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Sayra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,012 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 83 (2002).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Sayra, making it the 7,087th most common girls’ name of the year, down 726 places from #6,361 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 19 girls named Sayra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,012, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 83, in 2002. For comparison, it was #7,218 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sayra in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 1,512 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 601 babies named Sayra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 196 US girls were named Sayra; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sarah (1,101,838 babies since 1880), Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Sarai (22,925 babies since 1880) and Zara (20,930 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sayyora are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sayyora (90).
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 Sayra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,087 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,361 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,885 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,151 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,916 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,882 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,974 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,058 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,163 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,370 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,218 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,882 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,124 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,588 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,913 | — | — |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,179 | — | — |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,202 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,484 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,024 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,688 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,847 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,104 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,612 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,996 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,478 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,798 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,879 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,477 | — | — |
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).