In 2025, 271 US girls were named Sariah, making it the 951st most common girls’ name of the year, up 57 places from #1,008 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 255 girls named Sariah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #583, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 496. For comparison, it was #873 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sariah in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 9,594 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,782 babies named Sariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,967 US girls were named Sariah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 376. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,931 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sariah ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #479 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zariah (14,313 babies since 1880), Zaria (11,277 babies since 1880), Zariyah (7,569 babies since 1880) and Sariyah (6,500 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sareyah, Sahriyah and Sariyha are summarised on this page.