US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE SARA

Same rise and fall as Sara, around the same years.

WHERE SARA IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Sara ranked highest in New Jersey (#83) and lowest in Oregon (#1,063). 14 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Sara name popularity

Sara has been given to 437,441 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1981, when 11,391 babies got the name, and its best rank was #62 in 1981.

In 2025, 1,568 babies were named Sara (#435 in the country), 86% below the peak. That is down 21% from 2015.

Almost every Sara is a girl.

An estimated 352K people named Sara are alive in the US today, with a median age of 40.

It was a top-100 name in 19 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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