Sarah-Louise

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sarah-Louise: 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-Louise: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #186, and it stood at #3,899 in 2020.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#186highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#643
1997	#770
1998	#869
1999	#864
2000	#1033
2001	#2226
2002	#1530
2003	#1383
2004	#2112
2005	#2682
2006	#2137
2007	#2627
2008	#1815
2009	#2535
2010	#3156
2013	#5742
2016	#5785
2020	#3899

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 18 of the 25 years from 1996 to 2020.

In 2010: #430 among girls in Northern Ireland, #3156 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2020 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #643 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 recorded1997–2012
Highest recorded position: #186 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2012).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #3899 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020.
England and Wales · Girls

Sarah-Louise appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 18 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 246 births with the name.

Sarah-Louise across 3 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-Louise'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	#643 (1996)	#643 (1996)	#3899 (2020)	18 of 25	246 (1996–2020)	37 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#186 (1997)	#186 (1997)	#451 (2012)	8 of 16	36 (1997–2012)	10 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#764 (2006)	#764 (2006)	#937 (2011)	2 of 6	6 (2006–2011)	3 (2006)

Sarah-Louise 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-Louise in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	117	4 of 10	29
2000sbusiest	111	10 of 10	11
2010s	13	3 of 10	4
2020s	5	1 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

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

Sarah-Louise 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #186 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Sarah-Louise'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
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1033	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#864	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#770	30	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#643	37	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#267	5	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#291	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#186	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2020, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #186, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 10 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Courteney · #186, 15y
Deaglan · #186, 20y
Se · #187, 23y
Dylon · #188, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Coen · #186, 24y
Courteney · #186, 15y
Deaglan · #186, 20y
Lily-Mae · #186, 29y

Sarah-Louise was ranked #186 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1997. 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.

Sarah-Louise 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 Sarah-Louise without appearing here.

Sarah-Louise moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2682 and #2438 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #2509.
Julie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #284 and #225 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #370 and #439.

Moved ahead of Sarah-Louise

Blake Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2535 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #1587.
Jesse Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3156 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2649.
Meabh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2627 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2887.
Shea Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3156 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #3536.

Moved the opposite way to Sarah-Louise

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 while Ada went from #2683 to #38.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 while Alma went from #2096 to #304.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 while Alyssa went from #783 to #213.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 while Amalie went from #2096 to #992.

Moved the same way as Sarah-Louise

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 and Abigail from #21 to #87.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 and Aimee from #70 to #749.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 and Aisling from #440 to #1556.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Sarah-Louise went from #643 to #3899 and Alex from #161 to #1556.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #186 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

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Sarah-Louise across 3 official records

Sarah-Louise by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Sarah-Louise across 3 official records

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