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Saro

Boys' name

Rosary, through Rosario

Saro has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1980, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Saro, 2004

1 in 764,000

Saro over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saro: meaning, origin, and history

Rosary, through Rosario

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saro means

Saro belongs to the name family reached through Saro → Rosario. Its meaning is “rosary”.

Origin, language, and formation

Saro is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosario.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Saro is pronounced /ˈsa.ro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Saro between 1980 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,112 in 1980.

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 Saro?

Saro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saro 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saro was born before 1989 — so the typical Saro is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Saro 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (6)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,112
1980

Spellings of Saro

Saro is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 29.0% against Saro'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.

Where Saro is used

Across 1910–2025, Saro was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,743,270 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Saro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saro around the world

Where Saro 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
    2009–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2018–2018
    #5,527
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #512
    in 1971

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

Saro 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
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Best rank ever
#6,112
1980
Peak year
1980
6 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saro

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

SarthSardarSarmadSargisSarpSarvaSariSarekSarinSarnSarySaranSaromSarvamKamaroSardorSaralSarvinYaroSaraiSaronSarethSarithSarosh

Sibling names for Saro

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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