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Sarahann vs Sarahi

American parents have registered 8,204 Sarahis since 1880, against 781 Sarahanns. Sarahi is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sarahann against Sarahi, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sarahann Sarahi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Sarahi for 37 years and Sarahann for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sarahann Sarahi
Total US births 7818,204
Most in one year 32323
Babies in 2025 8287
Estimated living today 7608,100
Median age today 3015
Peak year 19882005
Best rank 3,095th girls800th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th914th
First recorded 19411981
Girls / boys 781 / 08,204 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sarahanns alive today are over 30; half the Sarahis are over 15. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sarahann and Sarahi.