Sarah-Jayne

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sarah-Jayne: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #301, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#301highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2018

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#916
1997	#3174
1998	#1823
1999	#1805
2000	#2416
2001	#2226
2002	#2540
2003	#4373
2004	#2278
2005	#2970
2006	#2320
2007	#2627
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2010	#4012
2011	#4764
2018	#4684

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 17 of the 23 years from 1996 to 2018.

In 2007: #413 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2627 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #916 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 recorded1998–2007
Highest recorded position: #301 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1998–2007).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #4684 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Girls

Sarah-Jayne appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 117 births with the name.

Sarah-Jayne across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sarah-Jayne's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#916 (1996)	#916 (1996)	#4684 (2018)	17 of 23	117 (1996–2018)	23 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#301 (1998)	#301 (1998)	#413 (2007)	2 of 10	7 (1998–2007)	4 (1998)

Sarah-Jayne 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 Sarah-Jayne in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	45	4 of 10	11
2000sbusiest	59	10 of 10	6
2010s	13	3 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Sarah-Jayne appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #301 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Sarah-Jayne'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
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#916	23	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#301	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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

Where Sarah-Jayne is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Sarah-Jayne, between 1996 and 2018, in 17 of those 23 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2018	17	#916 in 1996
Northern Ireland	1998–2007	2	#301 in 1998

No registrar recorded it for 6 years after 2011; it appears again in 2018.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2018, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #301, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 2 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Sarah · #1, 68y
Sarah-Jane · #172, 26y
Sarah-Louise · #186, 21y
Sarai · #1234, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Francie · #301, 18y
Averil · #300, 18y
Celene · #300, 13y
Jamey · #302, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Chloe-Louise · #301, 24y
Danni · #301, 29y
Francie · #301, 18y
Rhianne · #301, 23y

Sarah-Jayne was ranked #301 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1998. 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.

Abbi#301
Aileen#301
Ailish#301
Angela#301
Adele#351
Ailise#351
Aislin#351
Amy-Leigh#351

Sarah-Jayne 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sarah-Jayne without appearing here.

Sarah-Jayne moved ahead of

Finn
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2226 and #3998.
George
In 2009 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4012 and #5707.
Geraldine
In 2017 they stood at #4764 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.
Kim
In 2017 they stood at #4764 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Sarah-Jayne

Pauline
In 2007 they stood at #2627 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #1718.
Karin
In 2007 they stood at #2627 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #2150.
Jesse
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4764 and #1489.
Eabha
In 2008 they stood at #2320 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #2326.

Moved the opposite way to Sarah-Jayne

Ada
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 while Ada went from #2683 to #65.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 while Alma went from #2096 to #362.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 while Alyssa went from #783 to #229.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 while Amalie went from #2096 to #826.

Moved the same way as Sarah-Jayne

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 and Abigail from #21 to #77.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 and Aimee from #70 to #587.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 and Aisling from #440 to #2340.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Jayne went from #916 to #4684 and Alex from #161 to #1586.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #301 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Sarah-Jayne

Sarah-Jayne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sarah-Jayne across 2 official records

Sarah-Jayne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Sarah-Jayne at a glance

Sarah-Jayne across 2 official records

Sarah-Jayne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Sarah-Jayne and the names beside it

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