US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE SARAH

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

WHERE SARAH IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Sarah ranked highest in New York (#55) and lowest in Oklahoma (#602). 5 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Sarah name popularity

Sarah has been given to 1,101,838 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1982, when 28,608 babies got the name, and its best rank was #15 in 1981.

In 2025, 2,710 babies were named Sarah (#234 in the country), 91% below the peak. That is down 40% from 2015.

Almost every Sarah is a girl.

An estimated 886K people named Sarah are alive in the US today, with a median age of 38.

It was a top-100 name in 83 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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