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Sarina vs Sarrah

American parents have registered 9,624 Sarinas since 1880, against 1,636 Sarrahs. Sarina is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sarina Sarrah

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 130 years in which either name was published, Sarina for 83 years and Sarrah for 47 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Sarina Sarrah
Total US births 9,6241,636
Most in one year 29645
Babies in 2025 1175
Estimated living today 9,3001,200
Median age today 2633
Peak year 19961977
Best rank 713th girls2,091st girls
Rank in 2025 1,733rd14,942nd
First recorded 19131882
Girls / boys 9,624 / 01,636 / 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 Sarrahs alive today are over 33; half the Sarinas are over 26. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sarina Sarrah
England and Wales 66331
France 290360

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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