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Sayler vs Sayyora

American parents have registered 913 Saylers since 1880, against 90 Sayyoras. Sayler is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sayler against Sayyora, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sayler Sayyora

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

Sayler has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Sayler had 45 and Sayyora had 15.

Side by side

  Sayler Sayyora
Total US births 91390
Most in one year 7315
Babies in 2025 5313
Estimated living today 91090
Median age today 84
Peak year 20202017
Best rank 2,779th girls7,442nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,249th7,885th
First recorded 19922017
Girls / boys 854 / 5990 / 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 Saylers alive today are over 8; half the Sayyoras are over 4. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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