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Sarai vs Saralee

American parents have registered 22,925 Sarais since 1880, against 749 Saralees. Sarai is still ahead, with 733 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sarai against Saralee, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sarai Saralee

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 108 years in which either name was published, Sarai for 64 years and Saralee for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sarai Saralee
Total US births 22,925749
Most in one year 81828
Babies in 2025 733under 5
Estimated living today 23,000440
Median age today 1568
Peak year 20071941
Best rank 398th girls1,472nd girls
Rank in 2025 424thunranked
First recorded 19531917
Girls / boys 22,919 / 6749 / 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 Saralees alive today are over 68; half the Sarais are over 15. That is 53 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: Sarai and Saralee.