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Sayon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sayon has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2011, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Sayon, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sayon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sayon means

Sayon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sayon is used in Saisiyat.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Sayon between 1997 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #10,534 in 1997.

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 Sayon?

Sayon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sayon 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sayon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sayons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sayon was born before 2011 — so the typical Sayon is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Sayon 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (7)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,534
1997

Spellings of Sayon

Sayon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 36.4% against Sayon'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.

Sayon around the world

Where Sayon 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
    2015–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2019–2023
    #6,460
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sayon 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
#10,534
1997
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sayon

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

SayntSaylerSaygeSaydenMiyonSayidSayirSayanSayfReyonSayreSayyidSayerZhyonMyonSaylenIyonSayvonSiyonSeyonAceyonAvyonAryonSayd

Sibling names for Sayon

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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