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Saylor

#217 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Dancer, acrobat

Saylor has been given to 15,362 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #217 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,415 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Saylor, 2025

1 in 2,340

Saylor over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Saylor over time

In 2025, Saylor went to 96% girls and 4% boys.

19172025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Saylor: meaning, origin, and history

Dancer, acrobat

surname transfer

What Saylor means

Saylor means “dancer, acrobat”, associated with sailleor.

Origin, language, and formation

Saylor is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Saylor comes through Old French sailleor.

Saylor is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,482 girls were recorded with the name Saylor between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,415 in 2025; its best national rank was #207 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #304 in 2020 to #217 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #608 in 2015 to #217 in 2025.

In the United States, 880 boys were recorded with the name Saylor between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,925 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,459 in 2020 to #2,415 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,139 in 2015 to #2,415 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saylor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,340
1,415 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,140
0.09% of girls
Rank, 2025
#217
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,625 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saylor 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 301%
Grade of 1004%
School of 50019%

Put another way: gather 1,625 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saylor. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Saylors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saylor was born before 2020 — so the typical Saylor is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,482
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (7,827).

Is Saylor 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
+14
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+87
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+391
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.95×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,415)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#207
2022

Spellings of Saylor

Saylor is not the most common spelling — Taylor is, with 67.4% against Saylor's 3.0%.

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 Saylor is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Saylor was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 395 girls, against 1 in 1,218 across all states with data. It was least common in Rhode Island (1 in 5,263).

19253 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 395
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 431
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 437
  4. 4Alabama1 in 465
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 490
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 524
  7. 7Idaho1 in 529
  8. 8North Dakota1 in 529

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.

Geographically, Saylor is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 56% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Saylor is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Saylor was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 56,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 16,667
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  8. 8Missouri1 in 50,000

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.

Saylor around the world

Where Saylor 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
    2016–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2019–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #794
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Saylor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#217
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 87
Best rank ever
#207
2022
Peak year
2025
1,415 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,482
Count in 2025
1,415

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,415
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 44
Best rank ever
#1,925
2023
Peak year
2023
82 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
880
Count in 2025
57

Names similar to Saylor

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

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Names with a curve like Saylor

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

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Sibling names for Saylor

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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