Meaning not yet researched.
Sari: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,310 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,310 in 1956; #8,784 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sari in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,784 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #1,310.
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Sari: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,310 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 66 (2007).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Sari, making it the 8,784th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,896 places from #6,888 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 17 girls named Sari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,310, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 66, in 2007. For comparison, it was #4,700 in 2015 and #1,569 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sari in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 3,412 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 495 babies named Sari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US girls were named Sari; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zari (1,509 babies since 1880), Zaria (11,277 babies since 1880), Sariah (9,594 babies since 1880) and Sariya (1,728 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saori, Sayori and Sahari 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish and Hebrew. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Saori (771), Sayori (331), Sahari (264), Saree (135), Saory (97), Sary (78), Sarye (69), Sahori (66), Sairy (52), Saiori (18), Sayri (12), Sayari (6), and more.
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 Sari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,784 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,888 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,373 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,574 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,137 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,821 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,745 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,051 | 6 | #11,975 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,953 | 7 | #10,540 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,700 | 5 | #13,702 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,404 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,291 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,168 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,661 | — | — |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,468 | 5 | #14,248 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,888 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,194 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,600 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,342 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,567 | — | — |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,291 | 6 | #8,613 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,080 | 5 | #9,367 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,457 | 6 | #7,942 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1958 | 46 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1957 | 65 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,894 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,674 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,918 | — | — |
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).