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How popular is the name Sarah?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sarahs are alive today.
Sarah (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 131st in 2025 with 371 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1974, when it was the most popular girls' name outright, given to around 15,300 babies. Sarah's popularity is double-peaked: popular in the early 1900s and stronger still at its peak in the 1970s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 470,000 babies have been named Sarah in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Sarah is one spelling of a name also recorded as Sara; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Sarah you are most likely to meet is around 51 years old. Half of all Sarahs born in England and Wales are between 39 and 55, and there are at least 420,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 74% chance that at least one of them will be called Sarah.
How many babies are named Sarah each year?
Includes all spellings: Sarah, Sara. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Sarah spelling rank?
Where does the Sara spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sarah most popular?
Sarah peaked in 1974, when around 15,300 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Sarah?
At least 420,000 people named Sarah in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sarah?
Most living Sarahs are between 39 and 55; the most common age is about 51.
Is Sarah becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 1974 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.