Saylor

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 762 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
762
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#217
up from #231
UK popularity
#2138
13 babies

How Saylor has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#156#408#659201520202025#217

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#608
2016#440
2017#431
2018#364
2019#308
2020#302
2021#260
2022#207
2023#215
2024#231
2025#217

Saylor by the numbers

In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Saylor. In the US, 762 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Saylor

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Saylor. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Sailorone who sails; occupational name281 in the US (2017)
  • Sayler45 in the US (2017)
  • Skylor21 in the US (2017)
  • Saelor6 in the US (2017)
  • Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
  • Skylerscholar, learned one; modern respelling of Schuyler1,459 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Saylor

Names that are said the same way as Saylor, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Saylor

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