girls:
21.5k births since 1953
#987 (83rd percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1996
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
21.5k births since 1953
#1740 (78th percentile)
The name Sarai is the #1,740 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,486 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 77.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #987 (82.7% percentile) for all time with 21,480 births since 1953. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1996.
Sarai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Sarai is available in 66 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023 (66 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sarai has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sarai reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 62.0% percentile (ranked #376) with 386 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 428 births per million (ranked 60.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sarai is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #378 (60.1% percentile) with 428 births per million.
For boys, Sarai reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #777) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sarai".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Sarai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.7% confident that Sarai is pronounced as suh-RAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sah-RAI, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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