Saaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-ya
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Saaya is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Saaya mean?
Japanese: meaning depends on the kanji used
One spelling, 紗綾, names a kind of patterned silk; in Hindi and Urdu saaya means 'shade'.
Is Saaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Saaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Saaya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2008, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Saaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 71 girls in the US were given Saaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,126, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Saya 59
- Sayah 7
- Saaya 5
Saaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Saaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Siya Sama Salem Zaya Sariyah Safiya Zayla Raya Salma Zaniyah Hafsa
Other spellings of Saaya
Names related to Saaya
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saaya, updated 20 October 2026.