Sára
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Sarah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saːra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sára is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Congo - Kinshasa it is the 78th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 278(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 866
- SESweden1 in 147
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 364 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
384,257 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sara in US United States, ES Spain, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Sarah
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sára 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 | — | 384,257 | 1 in 866 | 384K | Sara | 265 |
| BR Brazil | — | 304,917 | 1 in 694 | 305K | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 179,954 | 1 in 278 | 180K | Sara | 85 |
| SE Sweden | — | 69,262 | 1 in 147 | 69K | — | 43 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 40,447 | 1 in 418 | 40K | — | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 15,157 | 1 in 368 | 17K | — | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 9,128 | 1 in 230 | 9.1K | — | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1,502 | 1 in 234 | 1.5K | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #78 | — | — | — | Sara | 11 |
384,257 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Sára is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, usmina u čizme; cijev oko stabljike; čest koja drži stroj (tkalački stan), a sastoji se od 4 daske
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Croatian, 1. v. ♦ 2. bibl. žena Abrahamova, majka Izakova, pramajka Izraelaca; pomajka prvog Abrahamovog sina Jišmaela, od kojeg su potekli Arapi
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Sára Salkaházib. 1899SKHungarian Roman Catholic religious sister (1899–1944)
- Sára Karigb. 1914HUHungarian writer and poet (1914-1999)
- Sára Vybíralováb. 1986CZCzech writer
- Sára Donutilováb. 1994CZCzech actress
- Sára Bácskaib. 1999HUHungarian short track speed skater
- Sára Rychlíkováb. 1999CZCzech actress
- Sára Kouskováb. 1999CZCzech professional golfer
- Sára Fojtb. 2003HUHungarian canoeist
- Sára Bejlekb. 2006CZCzech tennis player
- Sára LászlóHUfilm producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #13,529 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 15 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Sára mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sarah Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sára have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 384 thousand people named Sára, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sara.
- Where is Sára most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sára is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 147 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Sára a male or female name?
- Sára is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Sára?
- A machine transcription gives /saːra/ (IPA) for Czech.
- What are other forms of the name Sára?
- In the etymology graph, Sarah, Sally and Sadie are forms of the same name in other languages; Sárika is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Sára?
- In the United States, the national register counted 384,257 people named Sára in 2020, about 1 in 866 residents.
- How common is Sára compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Sára is the 78th most common given name of 20,652 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/s%C3%A1raThe 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, “Sára” — the 78th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.