Sarah Girl
How popular is Sarah?
#90 girl name in 2025
2,710 baby girls were named Sarah in the US in 2025, making it the 90th most popular girl name.
Sarah popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #90 for girls (▲ 3 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,710 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-40% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #57 in 2015, #86 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1982 (28,483 girls) |
| Highest rank | #3 in 1993 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sarah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sarah family of names ranked #49 for girls in 2025 (#48 the year before), with 5,080 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah | 2,710 | 53% |
| Sara | 1,568 | 31% |
| Sarai | 733 | 14% |
| Saray | 43 | 1% |
| Sahra | 15 | 0% |
| Sarrah | 5 | 0% |
| Sarra | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sarah is most popular
Babies named Sarah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 4.9 per 1,000 (1,928 girls)
- New Jersey: 4.8 per 1,000 (870 girls)
- Alaska: 3.8 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Florida: 2.8 per 1,000 (1,180 girls)
- Massachusetts: 2.6 per 1,000 (318 girls)
Sarah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 14,715 | #10 |
| 1890s | 17,154 | #21 |
| 1900s | 17,342 | #37 |
| 1910s | 38,120 | #40 |
| 1920s | 46,769 | #50 |
| 1930s | 36,513 | #58 |
| 1940s | 39,977 | #60 |
| 1950s | 39,966 | #88 |
| 1960s | 43,913 | #72 |
| 1970s | 118,823 | #6 |
| 1980s | 272,637 | #4 |
| 1990s | 224,423 | #3 |
| 2000s | 124,545 | #5 |
| 2010s | 46,657 | #26 |
| 2020s | 16,944 | #86 |
Girl names about as popular as Sarah
Questions
- Is Sarah a boy or girl name?
- Sarah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sarah were girls.
- How popular is the name Sarah?
- 2,710 baby girls were named Sarah in the US in 2025, making it the 90th most popular girl name.
- When was Sarah most popular?
- Sarah peaked in 1982, when 28,483 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #3 in 1993.
- How many people are named Sarah?
- 1,101,838 babies have been named Sarah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 896,023 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 38.
- Where is Sarah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sarah was most common in New York, at 4.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.