Sāra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ebreju mitoloģijā - vecākā patriarha Ābrama sieva, kurai ilgstoši nebija bērnu, un kad viņi bija jau krietni gados, piedzima Īzāks
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Sāra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 147(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 278
- CZCzechia1 in 408
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sāra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #76 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 655 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
874,128 named Sarah, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sarah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more, שרה in IL Israel and Sara in SE Sweden.
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)Ebreju mitoloģijā - vecākā patriarha Ābrama sieva, kurai ilgstoši nebija bērnu, un kad viņi bija jau krietni gados, piedzima Īzāks
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sāra 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 | #40 | 874,128as Sarah | 1 in 381 | 873K | Sarah | 655 |
| NG Nigeria | #54 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 599 | — | Sarah | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | #21 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 206 | 666 | Sarah | 414 |
| BR Brazil | — | 304,917 | 1 in 694 | 305K | — | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | #189 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Sarah | 216 |
| ES Spain | #238 | 179,954 | 1 in 278 | 180K | Sarah | 184 |
| AU Australia | #16 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 213 | 393 | Sarah | 342 |
| SE Sweden | #7 | 69,262 | 1 in 147 | 69K | Sara | 170 |
| IL Israel | #11 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | 589 | שרה | 122 |
874,128 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); 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). 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)Sāra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Zāra - upe Francijā un Vācijā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In kaw, core, pith
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.
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Sāra a male or female name?
- Sāra 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.
- What does the name Sāra mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ebreju mitoloģijā - vecākā patriarha Ābrama sieva, kurai ilgstoši nebija bērnu, un kad viņi bija jau krietni gados, piedzima Īzāks
- In which country does Sāra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 874 thousand people named Sarah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sāra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sāra is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 147 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sāra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 304,917 people named Sāra in 2022, about 1 in 694 residents.
- How common is Sāra compared with other names?
- In the United States, Sāra is the 40th most common given name of 2,815,431 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%C4%81raThe 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, “Sāra” — the 40th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.