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The SARAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 487 41995 0 2
United States (1880 census) 102 30979 0 2
Change since 1880 +385 -11016 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 136 10815 0.001 8
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SARAH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 66 19775 0.000 2
New York 37 27157 0.000 2
Texas 28 26475 0.000 1
Michigan 23 29591 0.000 2
Florida 21 40411 0.000 1
Top States for SARAH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 10 8267 0.001 10
Minnesota 19 22377 0.000 4
Louisiana 17 13021 0.000 4
Arizona 17 17398 0.000 3
Wisconsin 17 27094 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SARAH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SARAH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SARAH in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SARAH by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SARAH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SARAH surname.

Ethnic distribution of SARAH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 369 75.77
Black/African American 44 9.03
Asian/Pacific 26 5.34
Mixed Race 25 5.13
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SARAH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SARAH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SARAH in historical publications

SARAH. See Female Christian Names. In H.R. the forms are Sarra, Fil' Sarr, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SARAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SARAH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SARAH

The following words are slight variants of SARAH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.