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Sagar

Boys' name

Form of Sagara

Sagar has been given to 1,017 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1993, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Sagar, 2020

1 in 668,000

Sagar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sagar: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sagara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sagar means

Sagar is a form of Sagara.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sagar is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Odia and Punjabi.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɑː.ɡəɾ/, /ˈʃa.ɡɔɾ/, /ˈsɑ.ɡəɾ/ and /ˈsa.ɡɔɾ/ for Sagar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sagara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,017 boys were recorded with the name Sagar between 1975 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,469 in 1986.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sagar?

Sagar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sagar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sagar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sagars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sagar was born before 1994 — so the typical Sagar is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,017
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.6% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Sagar 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 1993 (58)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,469
1986

Spellings of Sagar

Sagar is not the most common spelling — Edgar is, with 56.5% against Sagar's 0.37%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sagar is used

Across 1910–2025, Sagar was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 162,826 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sagar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sagar around the world

Where Sagar 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 & Wales
    1996–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sagar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,469
1986
Peak year
1993
58 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
1,017
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sagar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sagar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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