Sarom
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sarom has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 5 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.
Babies named Sarom, 1990
1 in 790,000
Sarom over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sarom over time
In 1990, Sarom went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sarom?
Sarom had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 411,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sarom sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sarom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saroms were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sarom was born before 1987 — so the typical Sarom is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Sarom 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (5)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Sarom
Sarom is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 71.0% against Sarom'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.
Sarom around the world
Where Sarom 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.
- South Australia1992–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sarom by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Sarom
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sarom
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.