Meaning not yet researched.
Sarai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 733 in 2025. Its best rank was #398 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #398 in 2007; #425 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sarai in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#425 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #398.
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Sarai: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 733 girls in 2025. Peak: #398 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 818 (2007).
In 2025, 733 US girls were named Sarai, making it the 425th most common girls’ name of the year, up 19 places from #444 in 2024. That is 31 more than the 702 girls named Sarai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #398, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 818. For comparison, it was #439 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sarai in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 22,925 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,209 babies named Sarai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,105 US girls were named Sarai; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 756. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,193 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sarai ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #189 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Sarah (1,101,838 babies since 1880), Zara (20,930 babies since 1880) and Sarahi (8,204 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saraiya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Saraiya (298).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sarai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 5 | #189 | #298 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #213 | #157 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #240 | #762 |
| Florida | 77 | #250 | #278 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #265 | #331 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #284 | #362 |
| Georgia | 34 | #321 | #328 |
| New York | 52 | #327 | #231 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #349 | #412 |
| California | 91 | #364 | #293 |
| Nevada | 8 | #368 | #527 |
| Virginia | 22 | #375 | #584 |
| Illinois | 27 | #399 | #472 |
| Michigan | 21 | #420 | #769 |
| Maryland | 13 | #422 | #488 |
| Ohio | 27 | #428 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #432 | — |
| Texas | 77 | #440 | #421 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #452 | #593 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #462 | #648 |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #464 | #577 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #468 | — |
| Arizona | 14 | #512 | #427 |
| Missouri | 11 | #551 | #827 |
| Oregon | 6 | #614 | #788 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #622 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #651 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #664 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #688 | #959 |
| Indiana | 9 | #717 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #724 | #430 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #745 | #663 |
| Utah | 5 | #822 | #702 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #853 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 733 | #425 | — | — |
| 2024 | 702 | #444 | — | — |
| 2023 | 749 | #408 | — | — |
| 2022 | 737 | #429 | — | — |
| 2021 | 685 | #458 | — | — |
| 2020 | 650 | #473 | — | — |
| 2019 | 728 | #437 | — | — |
| 2018 | 756 | #409 | — | — |
| 2017 | 720 | #440 | — | — |
| 2016 | 645 | #485 | — | — |
| 2015 | 722 | #439 | — | — |
| 2014 | 714 | #449 | — | — |
| 2013 | 725 | #420 | — | — |
| 2012 | 757 | #416 | — | — |
| 2011 | 701 | #443 | — | — |
| 2010 | 741 | #424 | — | — |
| 2009 | 786 | #403 | — | — |
| 2008 | 798 | #404 | — | — |
| 2007 | 818 | #398 | — | — |
| 2006 | 720 | #443 | — | — |
| 2005 | 656 | #464 | — | — |
| 2004 | 623 | #473 | — | — |
| 2003 | 642 | #464 | — | — |
| 2002 | 528 | #518 | — | — |
| 2001 | 480 | #549 | — | — |
| 2000 | 465 | #560 | — | — |
| 1999 | 446 | #565 | — | — |
| 1998 | 391 | #617 | — | — |
| 1997 | 377 | #603 | — | — |
| 1996 | 387 | #589 | 6 | #8,830 |
| 1995 | 345 | #631 | — | — |
| 1994 | 285 | #734 | — | — |
| 1993 | 286 | #737 | — | — |
| 1992 | 253 | #799 | — | — |
| 1991 | 253 | #810 | — | — |
| 1990 | 220 | #881 | — | — |
| 1989 | 181 | #965 | — | — |
| 1988 | 145 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1987 | 166 | #963 | — | — |
| 1986 | 128 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1984 | 108 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1982 | 89 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,383 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,609 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,102 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,827 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,377 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).