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How popular is the name Saira?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sairas are alive today.
Saira (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1512th in 2025 and given to 20 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 1996, when 73 babies were given the name, the 428th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2005, with 73 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 1996; the 2025 figure is roughly 27% of its peak. Saira is one spelling of a name also recorded as Cyra and Sairah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Saira you are most likely to meet is around 31 years old. Half of all Sairas born in England and Wales are between 13 and 30, and there are at least 2,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Saira - on average, only one in every 132 such rooms contains a Saira.
How many babies are named Saira each year?
Includes all spellings: Saira, Cyra, Sairah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Saira spelling rank?
Where does the Cyra spelling rank?
Where does the Sairah spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Saira most popular?
Saira peaked in 1996, when 84 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Saira?
At least 2,400 people named Saira in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Saira?
Most living Sairas are between 13 and 30; the most common age is about 31.
Is Saira becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 1996 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.