Saray
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 121 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,331since 1974
Saray over time
Rank among girls' names. Saray has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 |
| 2024 | #3,758 | 40 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 |
| 2011 | #3,222 | 51 |
| 2010 | #2,258 | 85 |
| 2009 | #2,139 | 94 |
| 2008 | #2,218 | 89 |
| 2007 | #1,770 | 121 |
| 2006 | #1,918 | 105 |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 |
| 2003 | #1,896 | 96 |
| 2002 | #1,955 | 90 |
| 2001 | #1,922 | 90 |
| 2000 | #1,952 | 86 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 |
| 1996 | #1,964 | 72 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,650 | 46 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 |
| 1988 | #3,095 | 32 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Saray! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Saray is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,003 · 1 in 6,420
- North Carolina#1,091 · 1 in 6,631
- New Jersey#1,197 · 1 in 7,665
- Illinois#1,332 · 1 in 9,034
- Texas#1,667 · 1 in 12,821
Best ever in a state: #428 in Nevada, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,003 | 34 | 1 in 6,420 |
| North Carolina | #1,091 | 7 | 1 in 6,631 |
| New Jersey | #1,197 | 5 | 1 in 7,665 |
| Illinois | #1,332 | 7 | 1 in 9,034 |
| Texas | #1,667 | 13 | 1 in 12,821 |
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See more about Saray
- 241 spots since 2024 (#3,758 → #3,517)
- 236 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #3,517)
- 263 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #3,517)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2007 at #1,770 (121 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,889 girls born in 2007 were named Saray (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.4% of all girls named Saray (965) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #7,296 (1976) | #8,411 |
| 1980s | 136 | #3,095 (1988) | #6,002 |
| 1990s | 466 | #1,964 (1996) | #2,774 |
| 2000s | 965 | #1,770 (2007) | #1,966 |
| 2010s | 499 | #2,258 (2010) | #3,330 |
| 2020s | 241 | #3,281 (2020) | #3,767 |
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.
Saray in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 19,544 of them was named Saray, which outranked 89.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,119Symone95
- #2,119Symphony95
- #2,119Zia95
- #2,139Saray94
- #2,139Janyah94
- #2,139Lynn94
- #2,139Myleigh94
- #2,148Aaniyah93
- #2,148Addysen93
- #2,148Alysha93
Tied with 8 names at #2,139; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.