Sarahjean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sarahjean has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Sarahjean, 1997
1 in 604,000
Sarahjean over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sarahjean?
Sarahjean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 604,000
- 6 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 290,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,740 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sarahjean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,740 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sarahjean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sarahjeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sarahjean was born before 1990 — so the typical Sarahjean is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 61.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 39
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Sarahjean rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (10)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Sarahjean around the world
Where Sarahjean ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1987–1987#684in 1987
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sarahjean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sarahjean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sarahjean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.