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Sariyah

#625 in 2025Girls' name

A cloud that comes by night

Sariyah has been given to 6,500 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #625 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 518 recorded.

Babies named Sariyah, 2025

1 in 7,080

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sariyah: meaning, origin, and history

A cloud that comes by night

Arabic

What Sariyah means

Sariyah means “a cloud that comes by night”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic سَارِيَة (sāriya), the meaning “a cloud that comes by night”.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Sariyah is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Sariyah comes through Arabic سَارِيَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,500 girls were recorded with the name Sariyah between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 518 in 2023; its best national rank was #578 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #817 in 2020 to #625 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #982 in 2015 to #625 in 2025.

How common is Sariyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,080
468 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,430
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#625
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,911 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sariyah 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,911 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sariyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sariyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sariyah was born before 2018 — so the typical Sariyah is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,500
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (2,890).

Is Sariyah 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
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+192
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+357
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.3%
Peak was 2023 (518)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#578
2023

Spellings of Sariyah

Sariyah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 63.6% against Sariyah's 0.38%.

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 Sariyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Sariyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,042 girls, against 1 in 3,517 across all states with data. It was least common in Iowa (1 in 25,000).

496 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,042
  2. 2Georgia1 in 1,351
  3. 3Alabama1 in 1,471
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 1,493
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 1,724
  6. 6Florida1 in 2,128
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 2,128
  8. 8Maryland1 in 2,222

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, Sariyah is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 83% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Sariyah around the world

Where Sariyah 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
    2002–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sariyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#625
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 192
Best rank ever
#578
2023
Peak year
2023
518 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,500
Count in 2025
468

Names similar to Sariyah

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

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Names with a curve like Sariyah

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

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Sibling names for Sariyah

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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