Sarra
Sarra was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,644 among girls’ names; 668 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sarra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sarra?
#14,644 among girls’ names, 2025
Sarra fell from #8,862 in 2015 to #14,644 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.7 per million.
29 babies in 1997, the peak
Sarra peaked in 1997, when 29 girls were given it, #3,875 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,644 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,268 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,351 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,349 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,411 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,862 | 7.3 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,574 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,614 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,278 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,453 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 17 | #7,677 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,641 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,348 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,327 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,206 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,636 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,773 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,082 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,175 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,012 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,875 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,480 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,189 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,245 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,774 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,491 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,344 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,484 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,332 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,614 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,309 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,913 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,956 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,918 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,607 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,489 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,497 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,967 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,072 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,214 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,226 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,512 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,248 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,472 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,318 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,325 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sarra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sarra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sarra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sarra, and how old are they?
An estimated 652 Americans named Sarra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,141 people named Sarra (1,133 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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).
How common is the spelling Sarra?
Sarra is a less common spelling of Sarah: SSA has recorded 668 Sarra and 1,101,838 Sarah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,584,257 babies since 1880, Sarra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 5,477 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 Sarra
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 Sarra and names like it
- Compare Sarra and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSarra peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sarra since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Sarra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sarra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.