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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sarai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sarai” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sarai” 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 “Sarai” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sarai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sarai” 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
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1966 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 100%
1973 19 0.000006298 19 100%
1974 32 0.000010526 32 100%
1975 30 0.000009936 30 100%
1976 43 0.000014171 43 100%
1977 56 0.000017629 56 100%
1978 46 0.000014493 46 100%
1979 74 0.000022242 74 100%
1980 84 0.000024387 84 100%
1981 79 0.000022836 79 100%
1982 89 0.000025371 89 100%
1983 85 0.000024543 85 100%
1984 108 0.000030957 108 100%
1985 134 0.000037544 134 100%
1986 128 0.000035985 128 100%
1987 166 0.000046039 166 100%
1988 145 0.000039242 145 100%
1989 181 0.000047081 181 100%
1990 220 0.000055661 220 100%
1991 253 0.000064951 253 100%
1992 253 0.000065864 253 100%
1993 286 0.000075856 286 100%
1994 285 0.000076661 285 100%
1995 345 0.000094207 345 100%
1996 393 0.000107754 387 6 97%
1997 377 0.000103979 377 100%
1998 391 0.000106302 391 100%
1999 446 0.000120741 446 100%
2000 465 0.000123019 465 100%
2001 480 0.000128226 480 100%
2002 528 0.000141241 528 100%
2003 642 0.000168844 642 100%
2004 623 0.00016305 623 100%
2005 656 0.000170618 656 100%
2006 720 0.000181993 720 100%
2007 818 0.000204619 818 100%
2008 798 0.000203019 798 100%
2009 786 0.00020575 786 100%
2010 741 0.000200501 741 100%
2011 701 0.000191646 701 100%
2012 756 0.000206706 756 100%
2013 725 0.000198866 725 100%
2014 714 0.000192641 714 100%
2015 722 0.000195087 722 100%
2016 645 0.000175812 645 100%
2017 720 0.000201331 720 100%
2018 755 0.000214739 755 100%
2019 728 0.000209742 728 100%
2020 650 0.000194577 650 100%
2021 685 0.000202187 685 100%
2022 737 0.000217845 737 100%
2023 749 0.000226202 749 100%
2024 699 0.000210004 699 100%

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