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Sayra vs Sayvon

American parents have registered 1,512 Sayras since 1880, against 245 Sayvons. Sayra is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sayra against Sayvon, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sayra Sayvon

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

Sayra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Sayra had 31 and Sayvon had 28.

Side by side

  Sayra Sayvon
Total US births 1,512245
Most in one year 8328
Babies in 2025 166
Estimated living today 1,500240
Median age today 2225
Peak year 20001994
Best rank 1,998th girls2,618th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th10,695th
First recorded 19731993
Girls / boys 1,512 / 00 / 245

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 Sayvons alive today are over 25; half the Sayras are over 22. That is 3 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: Sayra and Sayvon.