Savas
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Savas has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 7 recorded.
Babies named Savas, 2008
1 in 786,000
Savas 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Savas?
Savas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 408,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Savas sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Savas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Savass were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Savas was born before 1987 — so the typical Savas is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 49
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Savas 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (7)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 6.7% average annual change
Spellings of Savas
Savas is not the most common spelling — Silas is, with 44.0% against Savas's 0.03%.
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.
Savas around the world
Where Savas 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 & Wales1998–2025#5,137in 2025
- France1975–2022#6,592in 2022
- South Australia1945–1999#539in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Savas by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Savas
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Savas
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.