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Sariah vs Sarina

American parents have registered 9,624 Sarinas since 1880, against 9,594 Sariahs. But in 2025 it was Sariah that was commoner, 271 babies to 117.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sariah against Sarina, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sariah 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 91 years in which either name was published, Sarina for 68 years and Sariah for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sariah Sarina
Total US births 9,5949,624
Most in one year 496296
Babies in 2025 271117
Estimated living today 9,5009,300
Median age today 1426
Peak year 20111996
Best rank 581st girls713th girls
Rank in 2025 950th1,733rd
First recorded 19691913
Girls / boys 9,594 / 09,624 / 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 Sarinas alive today are over 26; half the Sariahs are over 14. That is 12 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 Sariah Sarina
England and Wales 243663

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: Sariah and Sarina.