Entry № 9224 · Hebrew origin

Sarai Sarai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-rye /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"biblical (Sarah's original name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "biblical (sarah's original name)".

Sarai is from the Hebrew Śāray (שָׂרַי — my princess) — the original name of the biblical matriarch Sarah before God's covenant renaming. Sarai Sanjinés — Bolivian-American writer. Sarai Jones — modern American figure. Princess Sarai — Hebrew biblical heritage naming.

My princess (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

שָׂרַי
Transliteration
Śāray
Pronunciation
/ sɑːˈraɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sarai stands.

Sarai does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sarais before her.

Real people
Sarai Gascon
Iconic Spanish Paralympic 5x medalist.
born 1992
In fiction
Sarai (Genesis)
biblical original name of Sarah.

Names connected to Sarai.

The number behind Sarai.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sarai reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.