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Saray

#3,567 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Sarai

Saray has been given to 2,331 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #3,567 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Saray, 2025

1 in 77,100

Saray over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saray: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sarai

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saray means

Saray is a variant of Sarai.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Saray → Sarai. The family’s meaning is “master, chief”, recorded in English with the source elements שר.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sarai.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,331 girls were recorded with the name Saray between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,779 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,328 in 2020 to #3,567 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,294 in 2015 to #3,567 in 2025.

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 Saray?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,567
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saray 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saray. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sarays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saray was born before 2005 — so the typical Saray is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,331
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (965).

Is Saray 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
+239
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−239
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−273
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.5%
Peak was 2007 (121)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,779
2007

Spellings of Saray

Saray is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 61.3% against Saray's 0.03%.

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 Saray is used

Across 1910–2025, Saray was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 61,065 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Saray has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saray around the world

Where Saray 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
    2017–2017
    #4,063
    in 2017
  • France
    2012–2022
    #6,724
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Saray

People whose public names include Saray, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Saray by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,567
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 239
Best rank ever
#1,779
2007
Peak year
2007
121 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,331
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Saray

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

SariaSarenaSarayaSariyaSaronSarrahSariSarraSaranSaritaSaraeSarahySarayuSarahiSaryahSaralynSarynSariahSarinaSaraiSaryaSaritSariyahSarayah

Names with a curve like Saray

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Saray, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Saray

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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