Sarah
Sarah stands at #90 nationally in 2025, holding steady. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1982 peak, 1,098,498 children in all.
What Sarah carries
Sarah · Hebrew
“princess”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Sarah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Sarah, 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.
Sarah since 1880
Sarah peaked in 1982 at #4; #90 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Sarah is most common
The state that gives Sarah most often, per girls born there, is Wyoming (0.62% in 2025); Vermont and New York are close behind.
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 Sarah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Sara
#198 in 2025 · Hebrew
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Aaron
#80 in 2025 · Hebrew
Joshua
#66 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ana
#245 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Sarah
How common is Sarah today?
Sarah stands at #90 nationally in 2025, holding steady. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Sarah?
“princess” is the meaning our source sets down, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Sarah?
Sara, Adam and Aaron sit nearest to Sarah on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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