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Girl's name · #90 in the US (2025) · 80s wave
Sarah reached its best rank, #3, in 1993 and ranked #90 in 2025. About 1.1 million girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
Its relative popularity was strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, and is strongest in the Northeast in 2020–2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#28 in Netherlands (2025) · #47 in Bosnia (FBiH) (2025) · #55 in Austria (2025) · #64 in France (2025) · #67 in Ireland (2025) · #88 in Belgium (2025) · #100 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #109 in N. Ireland (2025) · #113 in Switzerland (2025) · #113 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #115 in Norway (2025) · #131 in England & Wales (2025) and 8 more.
Among 7,100 notable people named Sarah:
Medical professionals appear 1.64× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sarah Loguen Fraser, American physician.
Popular twin pairings with Sarah include Sophia for a girl, and Jacob for a boy.
Together with its spelling variant Sara (#198), Sarah would rank around #49 with about 4,300 births last year — the newborns split about 63/37 between Sarah and Sara.
About 3,600 girls a year are given Sadie as their full name and 190 Sally.
Similar names: Sara · Rachel · Zariah · Hannah · Samantha · Leah
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