Sara
Sara places #198 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. First recorded 1880, best year 1981, 436,193 bearers across the whole run.
What Sara carries
Sara · Hebrew
“princess”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Sara’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Sara, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Sara since 1880
Sara peaked in 1981 at #26; #198 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Sara is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Sara runs strongest in New Jersey at 0.54% in 2025, then New York and Maryland.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Sara
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Sarah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ana
#245 in 2025 · Hebrew
Rachel
#250 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Aaron
#80 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with S · Hebrew names · all names
About Sara
Where does Sara rank right now?
Sara places #198 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Sara?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “princess”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Sara?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Sarah, Molly and Jesse, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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