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Sayan

#5,012 in 2025Boys' name

Transliteration of স

Sayan has been given to 303 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #5,012 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Sayan, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sayan: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of স

Sanskrit

What Sayan means

Sayan is a transliteration of স.

Origin, language, and formation

Sayan is used in English, Sakizaya and Turkish. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sayan comes through Bengali সায়ন.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include স.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Sayan is pronounced /sa.ˈjan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 303 boys were recorded with the name Sayan between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,671 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,966 in 2020 to #5,012 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,250 in 2015 to #5,012 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.

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How common is Sayan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,012
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sayan 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 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sayans were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
303
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Sayan 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
+389
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,954
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,238
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2022 (22)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,671
2022

Spellings of Sayan

Sayan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 40.0% against Sayan'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 Sayan is used

Across 1910–2025, Sayan was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,243,562 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Sayan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sayan around the world

Where Sayan 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
    2007–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #791
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Sayan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,012
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,954
Best rank ever
#4,671
2022
Peak year
2022
22 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
303
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Sayan

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

SayidSayerSayedSaygeSayvonSayyidAhyanMayanZiyanSayfElyanDhyanJayanIzyanDiyanKayanViyanSayvionAyyanAlyanSayntSaylorJiyanDayan

Sibling names for Sayan

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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