How popular is “Sarah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sarah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sarah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sarah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sarah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sarah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sarah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sarah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	1288	0.006392567	1288		100%
1881	1226	0.006362617	1226		100%
1882	1410	0.00636474	1410		100%
1883	1366	0.006296498	1359	7	99%
1884	1524	0.00625973	1518	6	99%
1885	1431	0.005941359	1424	7	99%
1886	1575	0.006168826	1569	6	99%
1887	1436	0.005804553	1436		100%
1888	1755	0.005860275	1755		100%
1889	1735	0.006004582	1730	5	99%
1890	1791	0.00594225	1786	5	99%
1891	1669	0.005821964	1669		100%
1892	1804	0.005395156	1798	6	99%
1893	1638	0.005036544	1632	6	99%
1894	1711	0.005051817	1701	10	99%
1895	1785	0.005085181	1777	8	99%
1896	1696	0.004744268	1691	5	99%
1897	1722	0.004963151	1713	9	99%
1898	1805	0.004731882	1800	5	99%
1899	1598	0.004710613	1587	11	99%
1900	2059	0.004572934	2054	5	100%
1901	1519	0.00439256	1514	5	99%
1902	1715	0.004434584	1710	5	99%
1903	1558	0.004087093	1553	5	99%
1904	1601	0.00396793	1594	7	99%
1905	1767	0.004168219	1762	5	99%
1906	1697	0.00396078	1697		100%
1907	1799	0.003865575	1799		100%
1908	1814	0.003712276	1814		100%
1909	1856	0.003630502	1845	11	99%
1910	2179	0.003688775	2173	6	99%
1911	2210	0.003430196	2201	9	99%
1912	2935	0.002970461	2919	16	99%
1913	3188	0.002803599	3178	10	99%
1914	3692	0.002606711	3679	13	99%
1915	4430	0.00241756	4415	15	99%
1916	4817	0.002490156	4798	19	99%
1917	4777	0.002380466	4766	11	100%
1918	4983	0.002295138	4969	14	99%
1919	5033	0.002385031	5022	11	100%
1920	5045	0.002229693	5031	14	99%
1921	5043	0.002160201	5024	19	99%
1922	5001	0.002184648	4982	19	99%
1923	4982	0.002163753	4963	19	99%
1924	5073	0.002130072	5045	28	99%
1925	4709	0.00201817	4685	24	99%
1926	4436	0.001932136	4423	13	99%
1927	4590	0.001978996	4556	34	99%
1928	4278	0.001892135	4244	34	98%
1929	3836	0.001749872	3815	21	99%
1930	3948	0.001775748	3920	28	99%
1931	3658	0.001738273	3636	22	99%
1932	3621	0.001715064	3597	24	99%
1933	3651	0.001826005	3621	30	98%
1934	3629	0.001747386	3601	28	98%
1935	3634	0.001738839	3615	19	99%
1936	3535	0.0017015	3515	20	99%
1937	3614	0.00169618	3589	25	99%
1938	3770	0.001703898	3748	22	99%
1939	3689	0.001674199	3671	18	99%
1940	3893	0.001690635	3869	24	99%
1941	4002	0.001642571	3983	19	99%
1942	4120	0.001508153	4100	20	99%
1943	4007	0.001419634	3990	17	99%
1944	3864	0.001436389	3856	8	100%
1945	3603	0.001358131	3593	10	99%
1946	3923	0.001227738	3909	14	99%
1947	4240	0.001177019	4223	17	99%
1948	4169	0.001207524	4159	10	100%
1949	4306	0.001235661	4295	11	99%
1950	4155	0.001186005	4144	11	99%
1951	4037	0.001095897	4028	9	100%
1952	4056	0.001067929	4048	8	100%
1953	4096	0.00106289	4085	11	99%
1954	4052	0.001017909	4040	12	99%
1955	3995	0.000994999	3979	16	99%
1956	3887	0.000942752	3875	12	99%
1957	3999	0.000951657	3986	13	99%
1958	3926	0.000949708	3913	13	99%
1959	3884	0.000934105	3869	15	99%
1960	4219	0.001015693	4206	13	99%
1961	4220	0.001018757	4205	15	99%
1962	4562	0.001130503	4547	15	99%
1963	4585	0.001158355	4571	14	99%
1964	4601	0.001183505	4584	17	99%
1965	4078	0.001124826	4061	17	99%
1966	4049	0.00116496	4035	14	99%
1967	4154	0.001223601	4139	15	99%
1968	4503	0.001332874	4489	14	99%
1969	5094	0.001465763	5079	15	99%
1970	5630	0.001561064	5614	16	99%
1971	5860	0.001707283	5844	16	99%
1972	6134	0.001951642	6114	20	99%
1973	7247	0.002402145	7214	33	99%
1974	9821	0.003230593	9790	31	99%
1975	11216	0.003714653	11170	46	99%
1976	14042	0.004627756	13996	46	99%
1977	18160	0.005716995	18096	64	99%
1978	20058	0.00631973	19976	82	99%
1979	21101	0.006342351	21017	84	99%
1980	25843	0.007502672	25759	84	99%
1981	28283	0.008175754	28174	109	99%
1982	28613	0.008156587	28488	125	99%
1983	27348	0.007896426	27230	118	99%
1984	26011	0.007455668	25889	122	99%
1985	24979	0.006998663	24878	101	99%
1986	28281	0.007950627	28164	117	99%
1987	28005	0.007767054	27895	110	99%
1988	28462	0.007702752	28374	88	99%
1989	27942	0.007268146	27796	146	99%
1990	25882	0.006548297	25825	57	100%
1991	25268	0.00648685	25231	37	100%
1992	24689	0.006427296	24636	53	100%
1993	24302	0.006445677	24256	46	100%
1994	22342	0.006009705	22298	44	100%
1995	21428	0.0058512	21394	34	100%
1996	21077	0.005778962	21044	33	100%
1997	20733	0.005718267	20716	17	100%
1998	19920	0.005415682	19896	24	100%
1999	19130	0.005178855	19117	13	100%
2000	17741	0.004693505	17715	26	100%
2001	15949	0.004260577	15927	22	100%
2002	14800	0.003959029	14778	22	100%
2003	13811	0.003632257	13785	26	100%
2004	12807	0.003351808	12754	53	99%
2005	11570	0.003009224	11552	18	100%
2006	11176	0.002824941	11159	17	100%
2007	10023	0.002507202	10010	13	100%
2008	9070	0.002307498	9053	17	100%
2009	7803	0.002042577	7791	12	100%
2010	6346	0.001717113	6341	5	100%
2011	5574	0.00152387	5569	5	100%
2012	5211	0.001424795	5205	6	100%
2013	4720	0.001294688	4715	5	100%
2014	4714	0.001271862	4714		100%
2015	4544	0.001227806	4534	10	100%
2016	4435	0.001208876	4426	9	100%
2017	4039	0.001129413	4033	6	100%
2018	3778	0.001074548	3778		100%
2019	3322	0.000957091	3322		100%
2020	3077	0.000921098	3069	8	99%
2021	2862	0.000844759	2862		100%
2022	2805	0.000829113	2805		100%
2023	2767	0.00083565	2767		100%
2024	2697	0.000810275	2697		100%

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