girls:
3.3k births since 1912
#2995 (48th percentile)
boys:
40 births since 1990
#4546 (1st percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1912
#4700 (39th percentile)
The name Sari is the #4,700 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,383 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,995 (47.6% percentile) for all time with 3,343 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,546 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1990.
Sari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1990 for boys). Birth data for Sari is available in 101 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (101 years for girls and 7 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 Sari has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sari reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #688) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sari ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 32.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sari reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #919) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sari".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sari. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Sari is pronounced as SAH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-ree, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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