Sarai
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew: of Abraham, mother of Isaac in the Bible
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarai is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 8K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 8.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
18,137 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saraí in US United States, SV El Salvador, ES Spain and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hebrew: of Abraham, mother of Isaac in the Bible
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarai counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,137 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Saraí | 279 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,166 | 1 in 9.7K | 5.2K | Saraí | 118 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Saraí | 36 |
| SV El Salvador | #345 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Saraí | 26 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,124 | 1 in 8K | 2.1K | — | 28 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Saraí | 30 |
18,137 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sarai. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sarai is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of sarar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, second-person singular future of essere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A caravanserai.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kxd, lemongrass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, very well
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sarai Shermanb. 1922USAmerican artist (1922–2013)
- Sarai Tzurielb. 1952ILIsraeli dub actor
- Randeep Saraib. 1975CACanadian politician
- Sarai Sánchez Castillob. 1981VEVenezuelan chess player
- Saraib. 1981USAmerican rapper
- Sarai Baremanb. 1981NZassociation football player and administrator
- Sarai Givatyb. 1982ILIsraeli actress, musician and model
- Mónica Arangob. 1992COnot in their usual nameColombian synchronized swimmer
- Sarai Linderb. 1999DEGerman association football player
- Sarai WalkerUSAmerican writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,705 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.2K | #855 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.1K | #445 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.1K | #590 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 733 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63 | #1,705 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 60 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 6 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarai mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew: of Abraham, mother of Isaac in the Bible Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Sarai have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Sarai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saraí.
- How common is the name Sarai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,137 people named Sarai in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarai compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Sarai is the 345th most common given name of 28,124 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saraiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sarai” — the 345th most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.