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Saila

#14,612 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Saila has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #14,612 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Saila, 2025

1 in 553,000

Saila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saila: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saila means

Saila is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saila is used in Finnish.

Saila is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Saila is pronounced /ˈsɑi̯lɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 girls were recorded with the name Saila between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #9,817 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,947 in 2020 to #14,612 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,031 in 2015 to #14,612 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,612
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saila sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sailas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saila was born before 2018 — so the typical Saila is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
108
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Saila 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
−2,645
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,665
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,581
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,817
2017

Spellings of Saila

Saila is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 12.8% against Saila'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.

Saila around the world

Where Saila 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.

  • France
    2015–2021
    #5,247
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1979–1979
    #627
    in 1979

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,612
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,665
Best rank ever
#9,817
2017
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
108
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Saila

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

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Sibling names for Saila

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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