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Sara

Form of Sarah used in various languages.

PronunciationHebrew /sa.ˈʁa/; Greek /ˈsa.ra/; Spanish /ˈsa.ɾa/; Italian /ˈsaː.ra/; French /sa.ʁa/; German /ˈzaː.ʁa/; Dutch /ˈsaː.raː/; Finnish /ˈsɑ.rɑ/; Croatian /ˈsǎː.ra/; English /ˈsɛɹ.ə/; English /ˈsæɹ.ə/; Persian /sɒː.ˈɾɒː/
Usage languagesAlbanian, Amharic, Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tigrinya
US rank (2025)#198

Meaning and history

Sára is a form of Sarah used in various languages.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 4,411 births, rank #72
2007: 4,024 births, rank #80
2008: 3,595 births, rank #92
2009: 3,044 births, rank #106
2010: 2,636 births, rank #119
20112011: 2,396 births, rank #130
2012: 2,261 births, rank #142
2013: 2,093 births, rank #153
2014: 1,972 births, rank #165
2015: 1,982 births, rank #161
20162016: 2,041 births, rank #151
2017: 1,887 births, rank #158
2018: 1,718 births, rank #169
2019: 1,746 births, rank #163
2020: 1,577 births, rank #182
20212021: 1,519 births, rank #197
2022: 1,680 births, rank #178
2023: 1,602 births, rank #188
2024: 1,612 births, rank #187
20252025: 1,568 births, rank #198

Sara moved from #187 to #198 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1981, with 11,359 births.

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