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Saribel vs Sarina

American parents have registered 9,624 Sarinas since 1880, against 22 Saribels. Sarina is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saribel against Sarina, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saribel 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

Sarina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Saribel had 22 and Sarina had 229.

Side by side

  Saribel Sarina
Total US births 229,624
Most in one year 22296
Babies in 2025 under 5117
Estimated living today 209,300
Median age today 2226
Peak year 20031996
Best rank 5,419th girls713th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,733rd
First recorded 20031913
Girls / boys 22 / 09,624 / 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 Sarinas alive today are over 26; half the Saribels are over 22. That is 4 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: Saribel and Sarina.