Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GermanSarah is a common feminine given name of Hebrew origin. It derives its popularity from the biblical matriarch Sarah, the wife of Abraham and a major figure in the Abrahamic religions.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Sarah yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
At 1,099,063 births, Sarah is the largest name in this entire batch — more than a million American girls, and roughly a quarter more than Anna. It reached rank 3 in 1993 and its highest count of 28,488 in 1982. Today: 2,697 births, rank 95, down 43% over ten years. That trajectory is the standard fate of a name that was genuinely ubiquitous for a generation; there is no way back to the top while everyone associates it with people now in their forties. The bearers span centuries and fields — Sarah Bernhardt, born 1844, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Michelle Gellar — and Jane Wyman, born 1917, appears through her birth name Sarah Jane Mayfield. Ubiquity and desirability are not the same thing, and Sarah demonstrates the gap.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,288 | #10 |
| 1881 | 1,226 | #12 |
| 1882 | 1,410 | #12 |
| 1883 | 1,359 | #12 |
| 1884 | 1,518 | #14 |
| 1885 | 1,424 | #18 |
| 1886 | 1,569 | #16 |
| 1887 | 1,436 | #20 |
| 1888 | 1,755 | #20 |
| 1889 | 1,730 | #20 |
| 1890 | 1,786 | #21 |
| 1891 | 1,669 | #24 |
| 1892 | 1,798 | #28 |
| 1893 | 1,632 | #33 |
| 1894 | 1,701 | #34 |
| 1895 | 1,777 | #33 |
| 1896 | 1,691 | #35 |
| 1897 | 1,713 | #34 |
| 1898 | 1,800 | #37 |
| 1899 | 1,587 | #38 |
| 1900 | 2,054 | #37 |
| 1901 | 1,514 | #40 |
| 1902 | 1,710 | #39 |
| 1903 | 1,553 | #41 |
| 1904 | 1,594 | #43 |
| 1905 | 1,762 | #41 |
| 1906 | 1,697 | #44 |
| 1907 | 1,799 | #48 |
| 1908 | 1,814 | #48 |
| 1909 | 1,845 | #49 |
| 1910 | 2,173 | #40 |
| 1911 | 2,201 | #42 |
| 1912 | 2,919 | #41 |
| 1913 | 3,178 | #43 |
| 1914 | 3,679 | #47 |
| 1915 | 4,415 | #51 |
| 1916 | 4,798 | #52 |
| 1917 | 4,766 | #52 |
| 1918 | 4,969 | #52 |
| 1919 | 5,022 | #46 |
| 1920 | 5,031 | #50 |
| 1921 | 5,024 | #54 |
| 1922 | 4,982 | #51 |
| 1923 | 4,963 | #54 |
| 1924 | 5,045 | #54 |
| 1925 | 4,685 | #58 |
| 1926 | 4,423 | #63 |
| 1927 | 4,556 | #61 |
| 1928 | 4,244 | #64 |
| 1929 | 3,815 | #68 |
| 1930 | 3,920 | #70 |
| 1931 | 3,636 | #71 |
| 1932 | 3,597 | #67 |
| 1933 | 3,621 | #58 |
| 1934 | 3,601 | #67 |
| 1935 | 3,615 | #61 |
| 1936 | 3,515 | #63 |
| 1937 | 3,589 | #65 |
| 1938 | 3,748 | #67 |
| 1939 | 3,671 | #68 |
| 1940 | 3,869 | #60 |
| 1941 | 3,983 | #60 |
| 1942 | 4,100 | #67 |
| 1943 | 3,990 | #71 |
| 1944 | 3,856 | #67 |
| 1945 | 3,593 | #76 |
| 1946 | 3,909 | #92 |
| 1947 | 4,223 | #93 |
| 1948 | 4,159 | #85 |
| 1949 | 4,295 | #84 |
| 1950 | 4,144 | #88 |
| 1951 | 4,028 | #91 |
| 1952 | 4,048 | #93 |
| 1953 | 4,085 | #93 |
| 1954 | 4,040 | #103 |
| 1955 | 3,979 | #108 |
| 1956 | 3,875 | #115 |
| 1957 | 3,986 | #116 |
| 1958 | 3,913 | #117 |
| 1959 | 3,869 | #119 |
| 1960 | 4,206 | #116 |
| 1961 | 4,205 | #113 |
| 1962 | 4,547 | #98 |
| 1963 | 4,571 | #94 |
| 1964 | 4,584 | #92 |
| 1965 | 4,061 | #92 |
| 1966 | 4,035 | #85 |
| 1967 | 4,139 | #83 |
| 1968 | 4,489 | #78 |
| 1969 | 5,079 | #72 |
| 1970 | 5,614 | #65 |
| 1971 | 5,844 | #58 |
| 1972 | 6,114 | #49 |
| 1973 | 7,214 | #35 |
| 1974 | 9,790 | #20 |
| 1975 | 11,170 | #17 |
| 1976 | 13,996 | #15 |
| 1977 | 18,096 | #11 |
| 1978 | 19,976 | #8 |
| 1979 | 21,017 | #6 |
| 1980 | 25,759 | #5 |
| 1981 | 28,174 | #4 |
| 1982 | 28,488 | #4 |
| 1983 | 27,230 | #5 |
| 1984 | 25,889 | #5 |
| 1985 | 24,878 | #5 |
| 1986 | 28,164 | #5 |
| 1987 | 27,895 | #5 |
| 1988 | 28,374 | #4 |
| 1989 | 27,796 | #5 |
| 1990 | 25,825 | #6 |
| 1991 | 25,231 | #6 |
| 1992 | 24,636 | #5 |
| 1993 | 24,256 | #3 |
| 1994 | 22,298 | #5 |
| 1995 | 21,394 | #5 |
| 1996 | 21,044 | #4 |
| 1997 | 20,716 | #4 |
| 1998 | 19,896 | #4 |
| 1999 | 19,117 | #4 |
| 2000 | 17,715 | #5 |
| 2001 | 15,927 | #6 |
| 2002 | 14,778 | #8 |
| 2003 | 13,785 | #11 |
| 2004 | 12,754 | #12 |
| 2005 | 11,552 | #15 |
| 2006 | 11,159 | #15 |
| 2007 | 10,010 | #18 |
| 2008 | 9,053 | #20 |
| 2009 | 7,791 | #21 |
| 2010 | 6,341 | #26 |
| 2011 | 5,569 | #39 |
| 2012 | 5,205 | #42 |
| 2013 | 4,715 | #48 |
| 2014 | 4,714 | #50 |
| 2015 | 4,534 | #57 |
| 2016 | 4,426 | #57 |
| 2017 | 4,033 | #62 |
| 2018 | 3,778 | #66 |
| 2019 | 3,322 | #81 |
| 2020 | 3,069 | #86 |
| 2021 | 2,862 | #91 |
| 2022 | 2,805 | #95 |
| 2023 | 2,767 | #91 |
| 2024 | 2,697 | #95 |
