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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,403 · 1 in 10,223
- California#1,526 · 1 in 16,387
- New York#1,839 · 1 in 17,296
Best ever in a state: #414 in Minnesota, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,403 | 5 | 1 in 10,223 |
| California | #1,526 | 11 | 1 in 16,387 |
| New York | #1,839 | 5 | 1 in 17,296 |
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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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 90,011 of them was named Sai, which outranked 63.9% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,167Zeilani19
- #6,167Zuriel19
- #6,167Zyanya19
- #6,394Sai18
- #6,394Aaliah18
- #6,394Aarika18
- #6,394Abygail18
- #6,642Aariya17
- #6,642Abrianna17
- #6,642Adelie17
Tied with 247 names at #6,394; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 25,337 of them was named Sai, which outranked 84.9% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,133Ram69
- #2,133Rumi69
- #2,133Taytum69
- #2,156Sai68
- #2,156Cornelius68
- #2,156Demarcus68
- #2,156Earl68
- #2,169Artem67
- #2,169Ayub67
- #2,169Blair67
Tied with 12 names at #2,156; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.