girls:
1.3k births since 1979
#4417 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1979
#6436 (17th percentile)
The name Sayuri is the #6,436 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,306 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,417 (22.7% percentile) for all time with 1,306 births since 1979.
Sayuri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Sayuri is available in 37 out of the 45 years between 1979 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, Sayuri reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #886) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sayuri ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 50.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sayuri".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Sayuri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.2% confident that Sayuri is pronounced as sah-YUE-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sai-UE-ree, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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