Saagar
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saagar has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1986. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Saagar, 2004
1 in 478,000
Saagar over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Saagar?
Saagar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 478,000
- 8 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 248,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 330,995 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saagar sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 330,995 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saagar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saagars were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saagar was born before 1996 — so the typical Saagar is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 61.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 113
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Saagar rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (12)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Saagar
Saagar is not the most common spelling — Shamar is, with 66.0% against Saagar's 1.2%.
Saagar around the world
Where Saagar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2000#3,036in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Saagar by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Saagar
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saagar
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.