girls:
3.5k births since 1967
#2940 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1967
#4650 (40th percentile)
The name Saira is the #4,650 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,467 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 39.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,940 (48.6% percentile) for all time with 3,467 births since 1967.
Saira first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for girls in 1967). Birth data for Saira is available in 55 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Saira reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #791) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 68 births per million (ranked 12.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Saira ranks #863 for girls (8.9% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 74.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saira".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Saira.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Saira", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Saira.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Saira. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Saira is pronounced as SAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-ruh, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Saira? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Saira. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Saira, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S AY1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker