Sariyah
Sariyah was given to 468 girls in 2025, #625 among girls’ names; 6,500 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,460 Americans named Sariyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sariyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sariyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sariyah is “a female given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “a cloud that comes by night” (meaning).
Borrowed from Arabic سَارِيَة (sāriya), the meaning “a cloud that comes by night”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sariyah?
#625 among girls’ names, 2025
Sariyah rose from #982 in 2015 to #625 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.29 per 1,000.
518 babies in 2023, the peak
Sariyah peaked in 2023, when 518 girls were given it, #578 among girls’ names. The 468 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 468 | #625 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 475 | #627 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 518 | #578 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 398 | #732 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 378 | #756 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 334 | #817 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 360 | #773 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 376 | #740 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 317 | #865 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 298 | #925 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 275 | #982 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 221 | #1,137 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 242 | #1,033 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 289 | #906 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 261 | #983 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 251 | #1,003 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 228 | #1,115 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 202 | #1,248 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,350 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,732 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,832 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,916 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,568 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,474 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,906 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,081 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,681 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,923 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sariyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sariyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sariyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sariyah, and how old are they?
6,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,500 Americans ever recorded as Sariyah. The median Sariyah alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,768 people named Sariyah (2,759 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,987 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 1,820 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,630 |
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 Sariyah born?
The states with the most babies named Sariyah are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 50 | #630 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 41 | #461 | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 41 | #254 | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #378 | 1.5× |
| California | 26 | #1,050 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #450 | 1.0× |
| New York | 23 | #728 | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 19 | #132 | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 18 | #289 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 16 | #514 | 1.1× |
Where Sariyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sariyah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1998 it was given 2.4 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 Sariyah 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 1,124,785 babies since 1880, Sariyah is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 468 of their 3,696 babies (13%), the second 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 Sariyah
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 Sariyah and names like it
- Compare Sariyah and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSariyah peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sariyah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Sariyah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Sariyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sariyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.