Sarah
375
Babies in 2024
-38%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 3.11k
-4%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sarah
Sarah peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (3,111 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 375 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Sarah reached its peak in 1996, when 3,111 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #18 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 375 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 27,961 girls have been officially registered with the name Sarah in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 5,242 girls were registered with the name, starting from 601 in 2014 and ending at 375 in 2024.