Saerlaith
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAYR-la
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
- Style
- Big in Northern Ireland
Saerlaith is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “free princess”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Saerlaith mean?
Irish: older spelling of Saorlaith
“free princess”
From Irish saor, 'free, noble', and flaith, 'princess, sovereignty'.
Is Saerlaith a girl's or a boy's name?
Saerlaith is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saerlaith in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Saerlaith, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,407th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Saerlaith in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 231st in Northern Ireland.
Saerlaith in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 11 | #2,407 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
Names like Saerlaith
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Fiadh, Orla, Eden, Maeve, Nova, Nora, Clara, Rosie, Saoirse, Sadie, Cora, Saorlaith
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy, Callan
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saerlaith: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saerlaith, updated 20 October 2026.