How Many People Are Named Sarah?
people named Sarah are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 384 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,101,838 babies named Sarah in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐⭐ Common
Peak Year
28,608 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "lady, princess, noblewoman" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of Abraham's wife, considered the matriarch of the Jewish people. She was barren until she unexpectedly became the pregnant with Isaac at the age of 90. Her name was originally Sarai, but God changed it at the same time Abraham's name was changed (see Genesis 17:15).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sarah in English. Counting Sarah and these spellings together, about 890,988 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Sarah (99.7%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sarah alive today is about 38 years old, and 60% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 45 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sarah first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1982, to 28,608 babies. In 2025, 2,710 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sarah reached #3 among girls' names in 1993, and was in the top 10 in 26 years between 1880 and 2002. In 2025 it ranked #90.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #90 |
| Best rank | #3 (1993) |
| Years in the top 10 | 26 |
| Years in the top 100 | 138 (1880 to 2025) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #5 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sarah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sarah were born in California than in any other state: about 86,274 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sarah was given about 1.6 times as often in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Vermont.
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