Sariah

What Sariah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Sariah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sariah?

US: Steady: #872 in 2015, #950 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2328 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 496 girls got the name (#581 that year). First in the US records in 1969.

How common

• About 1 in 5,931 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 36,183 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.53 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.43 per 1,000 girls), GA (0.4 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Sariah is #950 in the US and #3333 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Sariah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Zariah689 US · 36 E&W
• Zaria274 US · 24 E&W
• Xaria45 US
• Seraiah26 US · 7 E&W
• Zuriah26 US
• Xariah26 US
• Saria25 US
• Syriah23 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Sariah

Girls

• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Addison#84Form of Adam, meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Brooklyn#118“wetland, marsh”^*

For a brother

• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sariah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.