How Many People Are Named Saira?

3,595

people named Saira are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 95,072 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,645 babies named Saira in Social Security records from 1967 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,595

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,592

See the top 100

Peak Year

2021

122 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Urdu
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Possibly means "traveller" in Arabic.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Saira in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Saira alive today is about 20 years old, and 77% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 29 in 2025.

Under 30 2,763
76.9%
30 to 59 832
23.1%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Saira first appears in the records in 1967 and was given most often in 2021, to 122 babies. In 2025, 79 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1967 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Saira has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,592, in 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,320.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,320
Best rank#1,592 (2001)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,839 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Saira alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Saira were born in California than in any other state: about 955 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Saira was given 3.1 times as often in California, 2.5 times in New York and 2.2 times in Texas.

California 955
Texas 499
New York 348
Illinois 72
Florida 60
New Jersey 56
Georgia 37
Washington 36
Arizona 23
Virginia 21
Ohio 13
North Carolina 11
Maryland 10
Pennsylvania 10
Michigan 5
Colorado 5

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