Sarae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- suh-RAY
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Sarae is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “princess”. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Sarae mean?
Hebrew: probably a spelling of Sarai, the original name of Sarah
“princess”
In Genesis, Abraham's wife Sarai is renamed Sarah by God.
Is Sarae a girl's or a boy's name?
Sarae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sarae in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Sarae, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.
2025 had more girls named Sarae than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Sarae in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sarae in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,374 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,949 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,469 |
Names like Sarae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Salem, Selah, Safa, Hadassah, Salma, Raya, Aaliyah, Summer, Zainab, Sariyah, Kaliyah, Shiloh
Names related to Sarae
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sarae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sarae, updated 20 October 2026.