Sarai - #444 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Sarai

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,919 babies named Sarai between 1953 and 2025, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sarai currently holds the #444 rank among girls for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 818 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sarai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,209 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Sarai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,126 births, the largest state-level total in the dataset, followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sarai in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sarai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 22,919 total represents a lower bound, actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.