Sarayu
Sarayu was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,877 among girls’ names; 679 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sarayu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sarayu?
#5,877 among girls’ names, 2025
Sarayu fell from #4,133 in 2015 to #5,877 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 13.1 per million.
41 babies in 2009, the peak
Sarayu peaked in 2009, when 41 girls were given it, #3,857 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,877 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,758 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,195 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,422 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,489 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,344 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,753 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,991 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,908 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,614 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,133 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,434 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,900 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,227 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,660 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,583 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,857 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,254 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,204 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,520 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,199 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,704 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,398 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,730 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,978 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,666 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sarayu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sarayu has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sarayu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sarayu, and how old are they?
An estimated 674 Americans named Sarayu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 600 people named Sarayu (599 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,576,898 babies since 1880, Sarayu is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 5,543 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Sarayu
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 Sarayu and names like it
- Compare Sarayu and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSarayu peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sarayu since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Sarayu.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sarayu alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.