Sarajane vs Sarina
American parents have registered 9,624 Sarinas since 1880, against 713 Sarajanes. Sarina is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Sarajane Sarina
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, Sarina for 81 years and Sarajane for 27 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1913–1916 Sarina ahead
- 1918–1950 Sarajane ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1953–2025 Sarina ahead, apart from one short spell
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Sarajane | Sarina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 713 | 9,624 |
| Most in one year | 18 | 296 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 117 |
| Estimated living today | 530 | 9,300 |
| Median age today | 47 | 26 |
| Peak year | 1943 | 1996 |
| Best rank | 2,079th girls | 713th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 1,733rd |
| First recorded | 1918 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 713 / 0 | 9,624 / 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 Sarajanes alive today are over 47; half the Sarinas are over 26. That is 21 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: Sarajane and Sarina.