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Sarenity vs Sariah

American parents have registered 9,594 Sariahs since 1880, against 684 Sarenitys. Sariah is still ahead, with 271 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sarenity against Sariah, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sarenity Sariah

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

Sariah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Sarenity had 27 and Sariah had 225.

Side by side

  Sarenity Sariah
Total US births 6849,594
Most in one year 51496
Babies in 2025 14271
Estimated living today 6809,500
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20122011
Best rank 3,213th girls581st girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st950th
First recorded 19971969
Girls / boys 684 / 09,594 / 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.

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