# Saara (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/saara/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 392 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 392 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 806, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 9,615 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11,104 |
| 2013 | 14 | 8,499 |
| 2014 | 18 | 6,937 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,386 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,540 |
| 2017 | 20 | 6,248 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,359 |
| 2019 | 20 | 6,148 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,890 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,436 |
| 2022 | 9 | 11,080 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,494 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,951 |
| 2025 | 13 | 8,257 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 1,117 |
| 2012 | 36 | 998 |
| 2013 | 54 | 733 |
| 2014 | 70 | 589 |
| 2015 | 38 | 942 |
| 2016 | 46 | 822 |
| 2017 | 51 | 771 |
| 2018 | 35 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 41 | 881 |
| 2020 | 35 | 969 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,505 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,326 |
| 2023 | 30 | 1,108 |
| 2024 | 28 | 1,198 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,719 |

## People named Saara

- Saara Aalto, Finnish singer-songwriter
- Saara Kivenmäki, Finnish ice hockey player and coach (born 1986)
- Saara Chaudry, Canadian actress
- Seija Simola, Finnish singer (1944–2017)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.