Saarah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Saarah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Saarah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #512 in 2000, and it stood at #1,353 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#512highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1005
1997	#645
1998	#787
1999	#653
2000	#512
2001	#523
2002	#547
2003	#564
2004	#736
2005	#625
2006	#586
2007	#578
2008	#710
2009	#850
2010	#910
2011	#877
2012	#1184
2013	#1018
2014	#814
2015	#794
2016	#916
2017	#836
2018	#902
2019	#897
2020	#992
2021	#1311
2022	#1282
2023	#1169
2024	#1353

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1005 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #512 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Saarah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Saarah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	124	4 of 10	31
2000sbusiest	515	10 of 10	52
2010s	404	10 of 10	40
2020s	135	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 52 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Saarah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #512 in England and Wales in 2000.

Saarah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1169	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1311	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#992	34	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#897	40	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#902	41	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#836	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#916	40	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#794	48	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1184	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#877	41	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#850	40	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#710	50	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#578	62	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#586	58	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#625	50	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#736	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#564	53	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#547	54	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#523	54	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#512	56	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#653	37	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#787	29	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#645	38	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1005	20	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #512, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 62 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,353position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
62births registered in its largest year, 200750 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Saba · #233, 56y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tyron · #511, 26y
Xanthe · #516, 29y
Aadil · #507, 29y
Hettie · #517, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Dorcas · #512, 25y
Shantel · #512, 19y
Temitayo · #512, 24y
Peace · #511, 27y

Saarah was ranked #512 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Saarah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Saarah without appearing here.

Saarah moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1169 and #2689.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1169 and #2063.
Aisling Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1184 and #1150 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1018 and #1864.
Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1005 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #645 and #1450.

Moved ahead of Saarah

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #897 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #992 and #460.
Mina Compare
In 2011 they stood at #877 and #959 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1184 and #722.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1169 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1353 and #952.
Ezra Compare
In 2020 they stood at #992 and #1164 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1311 and #983.

Moved the opposite way to Saarah

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #645 to #1353 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #645 to #1353 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #653 to #1353 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #653 to #1353 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Saarah

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #787 to #1169 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #512 to #1353 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saarah went from #547 to #1353 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #512 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Saarah

Saarah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Saarah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Saarah appears in

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What the record shows

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Saarah at a glance

Saarah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Saarah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Saarah

Saarah and the names beside it

Saarah moved ahead of

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