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Sarahi vs Sarenity

American parents have registered 8,204 Sarahis since 1880, against 684 Sarenitys. Sarahi is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sarahi Sarenity

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

Sarahi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Sarahi had 261 and Sarenity had 51.

Side by side

  Sarahi Sarenity
Total US births 8,204684
Most in one year 32351
Babies in 2025 28714
Estimated living today 8,100680
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20052012
Best rank 800th girls3,213th girls
Rank in 2025 914th7,491st
First recorded 19811997
Girls / boys 8,204 / 0684 / 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 Sarahis alive today are over 15; half the Sarenitys are over 13. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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