girls:
3.6k births since 1993
#2876 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1993
#4567 (41st percentile)
The name Saoirse is the #4,567 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,596 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 41.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,876 (49.7% percentile) for all time with 3,596 births since 1993.
Saoirse first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for girls in 1993). Birth data for Saoirse is available in 30 out of the 31 years between 1993 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, Saoirse reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 38.0% percentile (ranked #583) with 211 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 211 births per million (ranked 38.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Saoirse ranks #687 for girls (27.5% percentile) with 154 births per million, which is 73.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saoirse".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Saoirse.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Saoirse", 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 Saoirse.
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Saoirse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Saoirse is pronounced as SER-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SIHR-shuh, at 18.9% 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 Saoirse? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Saoirse. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Saoirse, 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 ER1 SH 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