Sariah
Sariah was given to 271 girls in 2025, #951 among girls’ names; 9,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,500 Americans named Sariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sariah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sariah is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Name of a character in the Book of Mormon. Compare Sarah and Maria.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sariah?
#951 among girls’ names, 2025
Sariah fell from #873 in 2015 to #951 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.18 to 0.17 per 1,000.
496 babies in 2011, the peak
Sariah peaked in 2011, when 496 girls were given it, #583 among girls’ names. The 271 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 271 | #951 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 255 | #1,008 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 255 | #999 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 307 | #904 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 268 | #971 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 325 | #843 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 263 | #983 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 321 | #848 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 376 | #747 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 326 | #864 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 319 | #873 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 363 | #773 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 428 | #669 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 438 | #649 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 496 | #583 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 452 | #649 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 466 | #638 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 463 | #664 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 396 | #736 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 336 | #814 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 289 | #880 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 225 | #1,036 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 243 | #962 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 206 | #1,047 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 190 | #1,115 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 174 | #1,158 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,289 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 150 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,558 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,482 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,332 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,399 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 58 | #2,286 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,827 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,130 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,804 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,140 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,550 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,308 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,592 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,246 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,999 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,496 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,728 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,602 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,924 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,431 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,277 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sariah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sariah, and how old are they?
9,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,594 Americans ever recorded as Sariah. The median Sariah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 6,512 people named Sariah (6,494 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,925 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 157 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 566 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,050 |
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 Sariah born?
The states with the most babies named Sariah are Florida, California and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 33 | #554 | 1.5× |
| California | 22 | #1,181 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,307 | 1.0× |
| New York | 18 | #894 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 18 | #606 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #771 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #864 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 10 | #777 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 9 | #479 | 3.3× |
| Virginia | 9 | #832 | 0.7× |
Where Sariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sariah is most over-represented in Utah: since 1969 it was given 3.3 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 Sariah 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 1,592,245 babies since 1880, Sariah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 271 of their 6,092 babies (4.4%), 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 Sariah
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 Sariah and names like it
- Compare Sariah and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSariah peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sariah since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Sariah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Sariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.