Sai
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,852 for boys in 2025, 85 births
Given to boys 78.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 81 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,696since 1972
Sai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,852 | 85 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #2,156 | 68 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #2,064 | 72 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,060 | 73 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #1,996 | 71 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #2,101 | 67 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #2,402 | 53 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #2,284 | 56 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #2,050 | 67 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #2,564 | 48 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #4,495 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sai! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sai is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#872 · 1 in 6,625
- California#1,043 · 1 in 10,158
- Texas#1,570 · 1 in 17,453
Best ever in a state: #414 in Minnesota, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #872 | 6 | 1 in 6,625 |
| California | #1,043 | 20 | 1 in 10,158 |
| Texas | #1,570 | 10 | 1 in 17,453 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sai
- 304 spots since 2024 (#2,156 → #1,852)
- 144 spots since 2020 (#1,996 → #1,852)
- 577 spots since 2015 (#2,429 → #1,852)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2019 at #1,849 (81 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,095 boys born in 2025 were named Sai (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,849 in 2019, was only 1 in 22,151 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.8% of all boys named Sai (556) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1982, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 116 | #2,469 (1989) | #4,080 |
| 1990s | 183 | #2,300 (1999) | #3,781 |
| 2000s | 405 | #2,050 (2009) | #2,789 |
| 2010s | 556 | #1,849 (2019) | #2,364 |
| 2020s | 431 | #1,852 (2025) | #2,064 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sai in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 111,891 of them was named Sai, which outranked 59.3% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,025Zona16
- #7,025Zyiah16
- #7,025Zyonna16
- #7,342Sai15
- #7,342Aasha15
- #7,342Aberdeen15
- #7,342Abi15
- #7,716Aadvika14
- #7,716Aamani14
- #7,716Aamirah14
Tied with 373 names at #7,342; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 22,151 of them was named Sai, which outranked 86.9% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,842Marko82
- #1,842Oden82
- #1,842Zyion82
- #1,849Sai81
- #1,849Abe81
- #1,849Aeson81
- #1,849Dandre81
- #1,868Abdulaziz80
- #1,868Adnan80
- #1,868Branch80
Tied with 18 names at #1,849; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.