Sarai

Where Sarai comes from

From Hebrew שרי (Saráy), from the plural form of שר (“master, chief”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sarai
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #5,673 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Sarai Givaty born
    Israeli actress, musician and model
  3. 1999
    Sarai Linder born
    German association football player
  4. 2007
    Peak, #398
    818 babies named Sarai — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, most famously borne by Sarah, the wife of Abram and mother of Isaac in the Bible, prior to her name change
Namesakes
  • Sarai Linder · German association football player, born 1999
  • Sarai Givaty · Israeli actress, musician and model, born 1982
  • Sarai Tzuriel · Israeli dub actor, born 1952
  • Sarai Sánchez Castillo · Venezuelan chess player, born 1981
  • Sarai Gascón Moreno · Spanish swimmer, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.