Sarai
#424 for girls in 2025, 733 births · Last seen for boys in 1996 at #7,971
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 818 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,919since 1953
Sarai over time
Rank among girls' names. Sarai has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #424 | 733 | — | |
| 2024 | #444 | 702 | — | |
| 2023 | #408 | 749 | — | |
| 2022 | #429 | 737 | — | |
| 2021 | #458 | 685 | — | |
| 2020 | #472 | 650 | — | |
| 2019 | #437 | 728 | — | |
| 2018 | #409 | 756 | — | |
| 2017 | #440 | 720 | — | |
| 2016 | #484 | 645 | — | |
| 2015 | #438 | 722 | — | |
| 2014 | #448 | 714 | — | |
| 2013 | #419 | 725 | — | |
| 2012 | #415 | 757 | — | |
| 2011 | #443 | 701 | — | |
| 2010 | #424 | 741 | — | |
| 2009 | #401 | 786 | — | |
| 2008 | #404 | 798 | — | |
| 2007 | #398 | 818 | — | |
| 2006 | #443 | 720 | — | |
| 2005 | #463 | 656 | — | |
| 2004 | #473 | 623 | — | |
| 2003 | #464 | 642 | — | |
| 2002 | #518 | 528 | — | |
| 2001 | #547 | 480 | — | |
| 2000 | #560 | 465 | — | |
| 1999 | #564 | 446 | — | |
| 1998 | #615 | 391 | — | |
| 1997 | #600 | 377 | — | |
| 1996 | #589 | 387 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #631 | 345 | — | |
| 1994 | #730 | 285 | — | |
| 1993 | #734 | 286 | — | |
| 1992 | #797 | 253 | — | |
| 1991 | #808 | 253 | — | |
| 1990 | #881 | 220 | — | |
| 1989 | #960 | 181 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,085 | 145 | — | |
| 1987 | #960 | 166 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,129 | 128 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,081 | 134 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,205 | 108 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,389 | 85 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,374 | 89 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,515 | 79 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,448 | 84 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,555 | 74 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,801 | 56 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,027 | 43 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,565 | 30 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,396 | 32 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sarai! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sarai is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#863 · 1 in 7,609
- Texas#1,092 · 1 in 11,111
- California#1,108 · 1 in 10,889
- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 14,939
Best ever in a state: #96 in Hawaii, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #863 | 13 | 1 in 7,609 |
| Texas | #1,092 | 10 | 1 in 11,111 |
| California | #1,108 | 15 | 1 in 10,889 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 14,939 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sarai
- 20 spots since 2024 (#444 → #424)
- 48 spots since 2020 (#472 → #424)
- 14 spots since 2015 (#438 → #424)
- Biggest jump: 169 spots in 1987 (#1,129 → #960)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 1988 (#960 → #1,085)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2007 at #398 (818 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1989–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,142 girls born in 2023 were named Sarai (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,193 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #398 in 2007, was only 1 in 2,350 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.5% of all girls named Sarai (7,209) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #4,520 (1958) | #5,253 |
| 1960s | 115 | #2,789 (1968) | #4,028 |
| 1970s | 362 | #1,555 (1979) | #2,538 |
| 1980s | 1,199 | #960 (1989) | #1,215 |
| 1990s | 3,243 | #564 (1999) | #695 |
| 2000s | 6,516 | #398 (2007) | #467 |
| 2010s | 7,209 | #409 (2018) | #436 |
| 2020s | 4,256 | #408 (2023) | #439 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sarai in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 21,693 of them was named Sarai, which outranked 87.0% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,543Natashia75
- #1,543Rosetta75
- #1,543Tory75
- #1,555Sarai74
- #1,555Barbie74
- #1,555Charise74
- #1,555Chevonne74
- #1,569Bethanie73
- #1,569Brett73
- #1,569Carley73
Tied with 13 names at #1,555; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.