Sarrah
Sarrah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,855 among girls’ names; 1,636 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Sarrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sarrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sarrah?
#16,855 among girls’ names, 2025
Sarrah fell from #16,104 in 2015 to #16,855 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
45 babies in 1977, the peak
Sarrah peaked in 1977, when 45 girls were given it, #2,117 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,855 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,235 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,203 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,020 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,571 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,350 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,015 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,106 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,104 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,182 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,613 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,276 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,819 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,020 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,454 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,344 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,093 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,430 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,180 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,916 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,597 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,420 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,052 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,234 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,475 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,209 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,075 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,830 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,865 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,090 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,649 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,828 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,058 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,026 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,518 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,560 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,893 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,149 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,830 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,963 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,002 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,480 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,788 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,843 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,509 | 22.8 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,117 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,306 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,878 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,500 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,412 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,362 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,269 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,970 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,203 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,939 | 5.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,925 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,376 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,146 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,115 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,766 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,799 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,341 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,273 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,492 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,353 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,132 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,250 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,689 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,093 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,123 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,323 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,125 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,911 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,871 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,491 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,804 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,349 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,507 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,406 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,591 | 24.0 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,383 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,346 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,399 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,132 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,204 | 37.9 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,048 | 46.7 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,374 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,364 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,243 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,035 | 46.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,284 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,222 | 35.9 |
| 1892 | 11 | #949 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,084 | 43.1 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,255 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 12 | #789 | 67.2 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,136 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,085 | 41.5 |
| 1885 | 8 | #836 | 60.1 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,034 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 7 | #803 | 64.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sarrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sarrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sarrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sarrah, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 1,636 Americans ever recorded as Sarrah. The median Sarrah alive today is 34 years old; half are between 26 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,219 people named Sarrah (1,219 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 172 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 566 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 369 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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 Sarrah born?
The states with the most babies named Sarrah are California, Texas and Indiana, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 107 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 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 Sarrah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sarrah?
Sarrah is a less common spelling of Sarah: SSA has recorded 1,636 Sarrah and 1,101,838 Sarah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,591,783 babies since 1880, Sarrah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 6,121 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 Sarrah
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 Sarrah and names like it
- Compare Sarrah and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSarrah peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sarrah since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Sarrah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sarrah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.