Sarai Girl
How popular is Sarai?
#424 girl name in 2025
733 baby girls were named Sarai in the US in 2025, making it the 424th most popular girl name.
Sarai popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #424 for girls (▲ 20 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 733 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+2% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #438 in 2015, #472 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (818 girls) |
| Highest rank | #398 in 2007 |
| First recorded | 1953 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sarai 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 Sarai is most popular
Babies named Sarai per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 1.5 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- District of Columbia: 1.0 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.0 per 1,000 (58 girls)
- Nevada: 1.0 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Florida: 0.9 per 1,000 (400 girls)
Sarai by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #4,519 |
| 1960s | 115 | #2,789 |
| 1970s | 362 | #1,555 |
| 1980s | 1,199 | #957 |
| 1990s | 3,243 | #564 |
| 2000s | 6,516 | #398 |
| 2010s | 7,209 | #409 |
| 2020s | 4,256 | #408 |
Girl names about as popular as Sarai
Questions
- Is Sarai a boy or girl name?
- Sarai is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sarai were girls.
- How popular is the name Sarai?
- 733 baby girls were named Sarai in the US in 2025, making it the 424th most popular girl name.
- When was Sarai most popular?
- Sarai peaked in 2007, when 818 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #398 in 2007.
- How many people are named Sarai?
- 22,925 babies have been named Sarai in the US since 1880. We estimate about 22,697 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Sarai most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sarai was most common in Hawaii, at 1.5 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.