Sayra
Feminine · “princess”
Sarah is renamed in Genesis. She is Sarai for the first seventeen chapters of her life in the text and then God changes it, adding a letter, at the moment the covenant is made; the change is treated as mattering, though both forms mean much the same thing.
How old is the name Sayra?
Sayra first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Sayra alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,500 people named Sayra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sayra most popular?
Sayra peaked in 2000, reaching #1998 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 4,840 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sarai to Sayra
The story of Sayra
Abraham and Sarai are both renamed in the same chapter, Abram becoming Abraham and Sarai Sarah, and the text presents it as part of establishing the covenant; the sense of the two forms is close enough that the change reads as ceremonial rather than semantic. Sarah became one of the most-used women's names in Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike. Spanish takes it as Sara without the h, and the y-for-i respelling belongs to Mexican and Central American naming of the last thirty years, where a y in a name is a strong modern marker. Sayra's best year in United States records is 2000.
Meaning
princess, noblewoman
Hebrew Sarah, a princess or noblewoman, from a root meaning to rule. Her earlier name Sarai is generally read as a variant of the same word, which makes the renaming in Genesis 17 more a formal act than a change of sense. The y of this spelling is a Spanish-facing respelling and carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- Sarai
- Sarah
- Sara
- Sayra
Related forms: Sara · Sarah · Sara · Sare
Pronouncing Sayra
SAH-rah
Two syllables with the stress on the first. The y is a plain vowel here and changes nothing; Sara and Sayra are identical aloud in Spanish.
Nicknames for Sayra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 200083 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1998reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −15.8%16 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sayra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sara in Spanish — spelling variant
- Sarah in Hebrew — same name
- Sara in Arabic — same name
- Sare in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Sayras among us
people named Sayra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Sayra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sayra
- #6838
- Sayra on the 2025 chart
- #860
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sayra went to 16 girls in 2025, but Saira and Sairah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 100, which makes it the 860th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,978 places above the chart.
- Saira79
- Sayra16
- Sairah5
About 1 girl in 16,073 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Sayra itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Charletta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sayra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Charletta climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Charletta's path sketches the road Sayra is walking now.
Sayra sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Sayra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sayra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Hebrew meaning and one of the most-used women's names in the world.
- Sarita is a warm and completely established Spanish diminutive.
- Five letters and no spelling difficulty in Spanish.
- Sara and Sarah are both far more common and will be written instead.
- The y makes the name look invented when it is not.
- English speakers may try a long a in the first syllable.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sayras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Sayra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sayra?
- Sayra is one of 3 recorded spellings. Saira is the more common one — 79 births in 2025 against 16 for Sayra.
- How popular is the name Sayra in 2025?
- Sayra ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sayra?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Sayra — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sayra with classmates?
- Sayra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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