# Saint (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/saint/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,476 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,288 / 188 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 578, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 | 1,509 |
| 1914 | 6 | 3,547 |
| 1915 | 6 | 4,187 |
| 1916 | 6 | 4,330 |
| 1935 | 5 | 4,797 |
| 1939 | 5 | 4,844 |
| 2018 | 8 | 12,298 |
| 2019 | 12 | 9,024 |
| 2020 | 10 | 10,140 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,374 |
| 2022 | 28 | 4,884 |
| 2023 | 22 | 5,709 |
| 2024 | 33 | 4,367 |
| 2025 | 23 | 5,526 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 4,332 |
| 2012 | 33 | 3,350 |
| 2013 | 22 | 4,434 |
| 2014 | 33 | 3,360 |
| 2015 | 40 | 2,951 |
| 2016 | 115 | 1,489 |
| 2017 | 141 | 1,291 |
| 2018 | 257 | 859 |
| 2019 | 328 | 737 |
| 2020 | 488 | 571 |
| 2021 | 670 | 454 |
| 2022 | 917 | 360 |
| 2023 | 1,061 | 314 |
| 2024 | 1,200 | 282 |
| 2025 | 1,286 | 267 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 29 | 985 |
| 2019 | 35 | 856 |
| 2020 | 47 | 706 |
| 2021 | 59 | 627 |
| 2022 | 71 | 540 |
| 2023 | 90 | 439 |
| 2024 | 101 | 403 |
| 2025 | 98 | 412 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.