Sariah

Where Sariah comes from

Name of a character in the Book of Mormon. Compare Sarah and Maria.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sariah
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #6,617 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #581
    496 babies named Sariah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Sariah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.