Sae
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sae has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 2009, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Sae, 2019
1 in 694,000
Sae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sae over time
In 2019, Sae went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sae?
Sae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sae was born before 2006 — so the typical Sae is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 47.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Sae 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (9)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 9.2% average annual change
Sae around the world
Where Sae 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 & Wales1997–2001#3,998in 2001
- France2009–2024#6,462in 2024
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1988–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.