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Saydie vs Sayuri

American parents have registered 1,424 Sayuris since 1880, against 606 Saydies. Sayuri is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Saydie Sayuri

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 40 years in which either name was published, Sayuri for 33 years and Saydie for 7 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Saydie Sayuri
Total US births 6061,424
Most in one year 43106
Babies in 2025 876
Estimated living today 6001,400
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20132007
Best rank 3,573rd girls1,940th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th2,368th
First recorded 19931979
Girls / boys 606 / 01,424 / 0

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 Saydies alive today are over 16; half the Sayuris are over 14. That is 2 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: Saydie and Sayuri.