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Saydee vs Sayler

American parents have registered 1,616 Saydees since 1880, against 913 Saylers. But in 2025 it was Sayler that was commoner, 53 babies to 35.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saydee against Sayler, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saydee Sayler

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Saydee for 29 years and Sayler for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Saydee Sayler
Total US births 1,616913
Most in one year 10173
Babies in 2025 3553
Estimated living today 1,600910
Median age today 148
Peak year 20132020
Best rank 1,953rd girls2,779th girls
Rank in 2025 4,067th3,249th
First recorded 19891992
Girls / boys 1,616 / 0854 / 59

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Saydees alive today are over 14; half the Saylers are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Saydee and Sayler.