Saraya
Saraya was given to 110 girls in 2025, #1,830 among girls’ names; 1,752 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Saraya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saraya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saraya?
#1,830 among girls’ names, 2025
Saraya rose from #2,805 in 2015 to #1,830 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.3 to 68.4 per million.
110 babies in 2025, the peak
Saraya peaked in 2025, when 110 girls were given it, #1,830 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 96 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,830 | 68.4 |
| 2024 | 96 | #2,039 | 59.3 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,931 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,486 | 44.5 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,671 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,883 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,779 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,909 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,379 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,370 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,805 | 35.3 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,574 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,212 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,085 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,584 | 39.8 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,894 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,346 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,637 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,817 | 33.8 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,360 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,250 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,586 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,399 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,855 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,850 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,502 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,701 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,605 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,982 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,553 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,646 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,980 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,073 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,346 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,450 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,942 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,300 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,232 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,576 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,588 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,975 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,110 | 3.6 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,133 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saraya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saraya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saraya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saraya, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,752 Americans ever recorded as Saraya. The median Saraya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,111 people named Saraya (1,106 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 674 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 806 |
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 Saraya born?
The states with the most babies named Saraya are Pennsylvania, Texas and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #806 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,362 | 0.4× |
| New York | 9 | #1,507 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,127 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,853 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,745 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,180 | 0.1× |
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 Saraya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,585,725 babies since 1880, Saraya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 110 of their 6,017 babies (1.8%), the sixth 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 Saraya
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 Saraya and names like it
- Compare Saraya and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSaraya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saraya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Saraya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saraya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.