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Saori

#3,243 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Saori has been given to 771 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #3,243 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Saori, 2025

1 in 67,700

Saori over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saori: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Saori means

Saori is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include sand, already, now, weaving.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 771 girls were recorded with the name Saori between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,028 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,830 in 2020 to #3,243 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,388 in 2015 to #3,243 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 Saori?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,243
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saori 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saori. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saoris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saori was born before 2017 — so the typical Saori is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
771
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2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (339).

Is Saori 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
−77
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+587
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,145
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.1%
Peak was 2022 (55)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,028
2022

Spellings of Saori

Saori is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 31.4% against Saori's 0.06%.

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 Saori is used

Across 1910–2025, Saori was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 164,962 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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. Saori has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saori around the world

Where Saori 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
    2006–2025
    #2,345
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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.

Saori by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,243
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 587
Best rank ever
#3,028
2022
Peak year
2022
55 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
771
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Saori

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

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Sibling names for Saori

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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