Saralynn

#8,781 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Saralynn has been given to 441 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #8,781 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Saralynn, 2025

1 in 276,000

Saralynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Saralynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,781
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saralynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saralynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saralynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saralynn was born before 2004 — so the typical Saralynn is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
436
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Saralynn 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
+3,197
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,167
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,474
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2014 (21)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,468
1984

Spellings of Saralynn

Saralynn is not the most common spelling — Adalynn is, with 37.8% against Saralynn's 0.49%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Saralynn around the world

Where Saralynn 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.

  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Saralynn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,781
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,167
Best rank ever
#5,468
1984
Peak year
2014
21 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
441
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Saralynn

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Sibling names for Saralynn

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