Sarai

Locally spelled Saraí in US United States, SV El Salvador, ES Spain and 4 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.

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sarai, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Miriam
• Tamar
• Tirzah
• Vashti
• Naomi

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Sarai is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa

  Also written Saraï, Saraí, Šärāį, Şaraï

• a separate name6 spellings in the group

  Also written Sarai͏̈, Sárai, Saraí, Sārāi, Saraï

• Hindi name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Saraí

• Turkish name7 spellings in the group

  Also written Saraí, Sárai, Saraï

• Hindi surname48 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Thailand, Colombia, Syria

  Languages: Hindi, Thai, Spanish

  Also written Saray, สาหร่าย, สะไร, 'สาหร่าย, Säräy

• Ukrainian surname18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Сарай, Сараи, Сараі, Saraj, Saray

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, second-person singular future of essere

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A caravanserai.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In kxd, lemongrass

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Hausa, very well

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Sarai Tzurielb. 1952ILIsraeli dub actor
• Sarai Givatyb. 1982ILIsraeli actress, musician and model
• Sarai Linderb. 1999DEGerman association football player

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).

68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Sarai mean, and where does it come from?

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Which countries have the most people named Sarai?

Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Sarai in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saraí. After it come United States, Spain, Guatemala and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.