girls:
632 births since 1951
#5084 (11th percentile)
boys:
25 births since 2005
#4561 (0th percentile)
overall:
657 births since 1951
#7082 (8th percentile)
The name Saran is the #7,082 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 657 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,084 (11.0% percentile) for all time with 632 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #4,561 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 2005.
Saran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Saran is available in 55 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 4 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 Saran has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Saran reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #799) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Saran ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 93.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Saran reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #872) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saran".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Saran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.2% confident that Saran is pronounced as ser-AN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-RAN, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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