Sai

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sai: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sai: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #847, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#847highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#3099
2004	#3197
2005	#2682
2006	#2509
2007	#3218
2008	#2022
2009	#3422
2010	#4012
2011	#4049
2012	#4171
2013	#3160
2014	#3514
2015	#2705
2016	#3214
2017	#4763
2018	#2674
2019	#3541
2020	#2615
2021	#3192
2022	#2178
2023	#2927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #847 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #847 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Sai appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 501 births with the name.

Sai across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sai's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#847 (2024)	#847 (2024)	29 of 29	501 (1996–2024)	38 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3099 (2003)	#2022 (2008)	#2927 (2023)	21 of 21	148 (2003–2023)	12 (2008)

Sai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sai in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	4 of 10	6
2000s	128	10 of 10	13
2010s	229	10 of 10	23
2020sbusiest	120	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 24 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sai appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #847 in England and Wales in 2024.

Sai's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#847	38	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1329	19	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1217	21	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1068	27	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#974	30	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#998	28	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1045	25	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1620	14	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1265	19	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	Insufficient	Not yet available
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1306	17	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	Insufficient	Not yet available
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	Insufficient	Not yet available
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	Insufficient	Not yet available
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	Insufficient	Not yet available
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	Insufficient	Not yet available
1997	England and Wales	male	#1454	8	Insufficient	Not yet available
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #847, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Sahra · #298, 63y
Saibh · #254, 24y
Said · #225, 68y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Fenella · #848, 29y
Ihsan · #848, 29y
Kendal · #848, 29y
Nasir · #848, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Fenella · #848, 29y
Ihsan · #848, 29y
Kendal · #848, 29y
Nasir · #848, 29y

Sai was ranked #847 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sai and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sai without appearing here.

Sai moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4171 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #3160 and #5742.
Karen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #3192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2178 and #4645.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Sai

Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3214 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2201.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3160 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #3514 and #1628.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1785.

Moved the opposite way to Sai

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Sai

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sai went from #2357 to #847 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #847 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sai

Sai at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sai across 2 official records

Sai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sai appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sai

Sai and the names beside it

Sai moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sai

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Moved the same way as Sai

Sai at a glance

Sai across 2 official records

Sai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sai appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sai

Sai and the names beside it

Sai moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sai

Moved the opposite way to Sai

Moved the same way as Sai