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Sarah

Girls' name · Late 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~897,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#90 among girls
Births in 2025
2,710 1,101,838 since 1880
Typical age
37 years, median

Sarah popularity over time

Sarah rank by birth year, 1880–2025Sarah ranked #10 in 1880 and #90 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #3, in 1993.#10#100#90best #3 in 199318901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1982: 28,608 births recorded as Sarah. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Across the record, 138 years put Sarah in the top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #90, with 2,710 births that year. The ten-year change is -40%.

Babies named Sarah per yearPeaks at 28,608 births in 1982.28,608 in 1982018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Sarah?

An estimated 897,700 living Americans are called Sarah. That is out of 1,101,838 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Sarah?

The typical living Sarah is 37 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 1980s. By the site’s era rules that makes Sarah a late 20th-century perennial name.

Your Sarah

Ages of living people named SarahHalf of living Sarahs are older than 37 and half younger.median 37020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Sarah is most common

The name is concentrated in New York, at 2.6× the national rate. New Jersey, Alaska and Alabama follow.

Where Sarah is used more than average5 states use the name Sarah more than the national average.Alaska: 1.8× the national rateAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 2.6× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 2.5× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: 1.5× the national rateALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: 1.5× the national rateFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Sarah is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New York 4,295 2.6×
New Jersey 1,819 2.5×
Alaska 78 1.8×
Alabama 588 1.5×
Florida 2,528 1.5×

Sarah in England and Wales

ONS recorded 371 births named Sarah in 2025, ranking it #131.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Sarah comes from

From Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָה (“lady, princess”), from the Biblical figure originally named Sarai (שָׂרָי).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Sarah

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Sarah Bernhardt French stage actress, painter and sculptor 1844–1923 193
Sarah Palin Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009 1964 103
Sarah Jessica Parker American actress 1965 80
Sarah Michelle Gellar American actress 1977 67
Sarah Toscano Italian singer-songwriter and actress 2006 63
Sarah Wayne Callies American actress and director 1977 58
Sarah Ferguson British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality, and former Duchess of York 1959 57
Sarah Paulson American actress 1974 56
Photo credits (6)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

How Sarah is usually spelled

Spellings within one or two letters of each other, and how 2025 births divided between them.
SpellingBirths in 2025Share
Sarah this page 2,710 63%
Sara 1,568 37%

Names similar to Sarah

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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