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Girl name#1,006 of girl names

Saylor

Pronounced S EY1 L ER0 (ARPABET)

  • 2 syllables
  • Peaked 2022
  • 33 years in use
  • 2 spellings
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How popular is Saylor?

Saylor is a girls' name, and first appears in 1992. It has been given to 18,838 children — the 1,006th most common girls' name on record.

It is climbing hard: about four times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 1,655 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Sailor and Sayler — because they are pronounced identically.

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2022Girls: 1,655Boys: 127

Spelling variants

These spellings sound identical to Saylor and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

  • Sailor
  • Sayler

Characteristics

  • 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
Pronunciations:
S EY1 L ER0
Stress pattern:
10
Syllables:
2

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Names like Saylor

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Sibling names for Saylor

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

Frequently asked questions

How popular is the name Saylor?
Saylor ranks 1,006th among girls' names in US records, with 18,838 births since 1992. Over the past decade it accounts for 12,897.
Is Saylor a unisex name?
No. Saylor is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Saylor most popular?
2022, when 1,655 children were given the name. It has been in use for 33 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Saylor spelled?
Sailor, Sayler. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.