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Saran

#11,757 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Saran has been given to 676 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #11,757 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1986, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Saran, 2025

1 in 414,000

Saran over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saran: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saran means

Saran is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saran is used in Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 651 girls were recorded with the name Saran between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1986; its best national rank was #4,009 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,962 in 2020 to #11,757 in 2025.

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Saran between 2005 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #9,411 in 2006.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,757
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saran 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sarans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saran was born before 1994 — so the typical Saran is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
651
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Choose a decade

1980s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Saran 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
−2,304
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1986 (20)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,009
1979

Spellings of Saran

Saran is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 21.1% against Saran's 0.01%.

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.

Where Saran is used

Across 1910–2025, Saran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 509,271 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saran around the world

Where Saran 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1978–2025
    #934
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1974–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saran by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 205
Best rank ever
#4,009
1979
Peak year
1986
20 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
651
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,411
2006
Peak year
2006
8 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saran

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saran

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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