Saralee — girls' name

What the Data Says About Saralee

The Social Security Administration has registered 749 babies named Saralee between 1917 and 2018, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Saralee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1941, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Saralee performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 189 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Saralee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Saralee in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Saralee 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 749 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.