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Sariah

#951 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Sariah has been given to 9,594 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #951 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 496 recorded.

Babies named Sariah, 2025

1 in 12,200

Sariah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sariah: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Sariah means

Sariah is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Name of a character in the Book of Mormon.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Sariah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Sariah is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Sariah is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,594 girls were recorded with the name Sariah between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 496 in 2011; its best national rank was #583 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #843 in 2020 to #951 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #873 in 2015 to #951 in 2025.

How common is Sariah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,200
271 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,930
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#951
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,480 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sariah 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,480 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sariah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sariahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sariah was born before 2011 — so the typical Sariah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,594
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (3,782).

Is Sariah 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
+57
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−78
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.6%
Peak was 2011 (496)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#583
2011

Spellings of Sariah

Sariah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 39.0% against Sariah's 0.34%.

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 Sariah is used

Across 2016–2025, Sariah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 2,041 girls, against 1 in 5,199 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 33,333).

349 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 2,041
  2. 2Georgia1 in 2,222
  3. 3Utah1 in 2,381
  4. 4Florida1 in 2,778
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 2,857
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 3,571
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 3,704
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 4,167

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.

Geographically, Sariah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 73% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Sariah around the world

Where Sariah 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sariah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#951
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 108
Best rank ever
#583
2011
Peak year
2011
496 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,594
Count in 2025
271

Names similar to Sariah

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

SarinaSarahiSaraiahSaritaSaryiahSariyahSarenaMoriahSaraiZariahSarayaSariyaSarrahMaliahKeziahJaniahSarayAriahNeriahNariahAzariahTaliahAnaiahSarahy

Names with a curve like Sariah

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

MaleahGianaYareliMiahJayceeNathalyMadalynnJayleneJayleeKeylaJazlynnLilianna

Sibling names for Sariah

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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