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Sari vs Sarina

American parents have registered 9,624 Sarinas since 1880, against 3,412 Saris. Sarina is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sari against Sarina, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sari Sarina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Sarina for 63 years and Sari for 45 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Sari Sarina
Total US births 3,4129,624
Most in one year 66296
Babies in 2025 12117
Estimated living today 3,0009,300
Median age today 4326
Peak year 20071996
Best rank 2,750th girls713th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd1,733rd
First recorded 19121913
Girls / boys 3,372 / 409,624 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Saris alive today are over 43; half the Sarinas are over 26. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sari Sarina
Switzerland 651,785
England and Wales 23663
France 15290
Belgium 157137

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sari and Sarina.