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Saylor vs Sayori

American parents have registered 15,362 Saylors since 1880, against 331 Sayoris. Saylor is still ahead, with 1,472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saylor against Sayori, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saylor Sayori

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

Saylor has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Saylor had 1,480 and Sayori had 125.

Side by side

  Saylor Sayori
Total US births 15,362331
Most in one year 1,480125
Babies in 2025 1,47249
Estimated living today 15,000330
Median age today 52
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 217th girls1,656th girls
Rank in 2025 217th3,211th
First recorded 19172021
Girls / boys 14,482 / 880331 / 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 Saylors alive today are over 5; half the Sayoris are over 2. That is 3 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: Saylor and Sayori.