Saia
#8,258 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saia has been given to 227 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #8,258 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Saia, 2025
1 in 255,000
Saia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Saia over time
In 2025, Saia 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 Saia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,258
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saia was born before 2017 — so the typical Saia is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 214
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Saia 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
- +83
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,680
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,823
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.2%
- Peak was 2016 (18)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.5% average annual change
Spellings of Saia
Saia is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 18.2% against Saia's <0.01%.
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.
Saia around the world
Where Saia 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 & Wales2018–2018#5,666in 2018
- South Australia1996–1996#712in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Saia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Saia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.