# Sara (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sara/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | “sarah” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 437,441 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,248 / 436,193 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14,632, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).

## 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 | 2,396 | 130 |
| 2012 | 2,261 | 142 |
| 2013 | 2,093 | 153 |
| 2014 | 1,972 | 166 |
| 2015 | 1,982 | 161 |
| 2016 | 2,041 | 152 |
| 2017 | 1,887 | 158 |
| 2018 | 1,718 | 170 |
| 2019 | 1,746 | 163 |
| 2020 | 1,577 | 183 |
| 2021 | 1,519 | 197 |
| 2022 | 1,680 | 178 |
| 2023 | 1,602 | 188 |
| 2024 | 1,612 | 187 |
| 2025 | 1,568 | 198 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 13 | 5,118 |
| 1999 | 14 | 4,985 |
| 2000 | 11 | 6,234 |
| 2001 | 7 | 9,058 |
| 2002 | 5 | 12,173 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,431 |
| 2004 | 24 | 3,837 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,552 |
| 2006 | 8 | 9,416 |
| 2007 | 5 | 14,032 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,825 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,905 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,529 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,891 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,890 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 527 | 109 |
| 2012 | 584 | 99 |
| 2013 | 552 | 100 |
| 2014 | 596 | 96 |
| 2015 | 612 | 87 |
| 2016 | 606 | 90 |
| 2017 | 653 | 82 |
| 2018 | 535 | 98 |
| 2019 | 609 | 88 |
| 2020 | 496 | 102 |
| 2021 | 511 | 100 |
| 2022 | 497 | 99 |
| 2023 | 445 | 107 |
| 2024 | 476 | 97 |
| 2025 | 427 | 110 |

## People named Sara

- Sara Bareilles, American recording artist; pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
- Sara Teasdale, American writer and poet (1884–1933)
- Sara Gilbert, American actress
- Saint Sarah, French-Egyptian saint
- Sara Ahmed, British-Australian scholar (b. 1985)
- Sara Canning, Canadian actress
- Sara Kolak, Croatian javelin thrower
- Sara Paxton, American actress (born 1988)
- Sara Seager, Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist
- Sara Däbritz, German footballer
- Sara Forestier, French actress
- Sara Jean Underwood, American playmate

## 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.