Saray
Saray was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,567 among girls’ names; 2,331 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Saray and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saray by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saray?
#3,567 among girls’ names, 2025
Saray fell from #3,294 in 2015 to #3,567 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 26.8 per million.
121 babies in 2007, the peak
Saray peaked in 2007, when 121 girls were given it, #1,779 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,567 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,806 | 24.7 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,438 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,361 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,428 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,328 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,906 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,606 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,616 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,986 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,294 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,360 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,361 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,084 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,260 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,272 | 47.8 |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,145 | 51.2 |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,231 | 47.1 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,779 | 62.9 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,931 | 55.2 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,904 | 55.2 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,014 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,909 | 52.5 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,962 | 50.1 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,932 | 50.0 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,961 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,417 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,524 | 31.1 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,650 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,973 | 41.1 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,343 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,737 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,923 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,671 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,274 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,603 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,006 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,143 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,549 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,070 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,290 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,469 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,606 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,272 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,764 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,874 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,920 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,461 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,943 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,881 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saray a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saray has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saray: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saray, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,331 Americans ever recorded as Saray. The median Saray alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,408 people named Saray (2,348 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 421 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 546 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Saray born?
The states with the most babies named Saray are Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,113 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,718 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,587 | 0.1× |
Where Saray is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saray is most over-represented in California: since 1974 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Saray with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Saray?
Saray is a less common spelling of Sarai: SSA has recorded 2,331 Saray and 22,925 Sarai since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,589,390 babies since 1880, Saray is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 5,703 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Saray
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Saray and names like it
- Compare Saray and SaraiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaray peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saray since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Saray.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saray alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.