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Saira

#2,320 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly traveller

Saira has been given to 3,645 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #2,320 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Saira, 2025

1 in 42,000

Saira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saira: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly traveller

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saira means

Saira may mean “traveller”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,645 girls were recorded with the name Saira between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,592 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,077 in 2020 to #2,320 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,521 in 2015 to #2,320 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.

How common is Saira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,320
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saira 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saira was born before 2005 — so the typical Saira is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,645
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (1,070).

Is Saira 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
−290
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−243
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+201
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.8%
Peak was 2021 (122)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,592
2001

Spellings of Saira

Saira is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 24.3% against Saira's 0.08%.

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 Saira is used

Across 2016–2025, Saira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 16,595 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Saira around the world

Where Saira 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
    1996–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    1985–2025
    #6,993
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Saira

People whose public names include Saira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Saira in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Saira. Linked forms have their own page here.

SaraSiraCairaZaira

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Saira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,320
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 243
Best rank ever
#1,592
2001
Peak year
2021
122 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,645
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Saira

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

SailorSaidaSaigeKairaZairaSaimaShiraMairaAdiraSaishaAkiraMoiraMeiraSaiyaYaniraElmiraSainaDairaClairaIndiraNairaCairaAlmiraZamira

Names with a curve like Saira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Saira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Saira

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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