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Sayori

#3,244 in 2025Girls' name

Transliteration of 小夜里

Sayori has been given to 331 babies in the U.S. since 2021. In 2025 it ranked #3,244 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Sayori, 2025

1 in 67,700

Sayori over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sayori: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of 小夜里

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sayori means

Sayori is a transliteration of 小夜里.

Origin, language, and formation

Sayori is used in English.

Sayori comes through Japanese 小夜里.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include 小夜里.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 331 girls were recorded with the name Sayori between 2021 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,665 in 2023.

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 Sayori?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,244
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sayori 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 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sayori. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sayoris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sayori was born before 2023 — so the typical Sayori is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
331
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (331).

Is Sayori 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
−863
Places dropped
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
39.2%
Peak was 2023 (125)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
70.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,665
2023

Spellings of Sayori

Sayori is not the most common spelling — Saylor is, with 46.1% against Sayori's 1.1%.

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 Sayori is used

Across 2016–2025, Sayori was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 45,224 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 14,286
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 16,667
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 33,333
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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.

Sayori by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,244
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,665
2023
Peak year
2023
125 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
331
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Sayori

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

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Sibling names for Sayori

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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