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Sara

Rank in 2024
#187
Born in 2024
1,605
Peak year
1981 · #26
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,605 girls were named Sara, about 1 in every 1,005.
  • It peaked in 1981 with 11,358 babies, ranked #26.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 434,598 girls have been named Sara since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sara per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.8
    Greatest
  2. 1.6
    Silent
  3. 1.1
    Boomers
  4. 3.1
    Gen X
  5. 5.2
    Millennials
  6. 2.4
    Gen Z
  7. 1.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 36,724 babies, 1.79 per 1,000. Silent: 33,957 babies, 1.64 per 1,000. Boomers: 40,240 babies, 1.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 79,605 babies, 3.12 per 1,000. Millennials: 147,907 babies, 5.24 per 1,000. Gen Z: 69,135 babies, 2.38 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 21,409 babies, 1.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).

  • A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
Origin
Latin
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Sara, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Born '24
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    1,327
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    Rank
    #444
    Born '24
    699
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    Rank
    #542
    Born '24
    556
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    Rank
    #824
    Born '24
    332
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20002024
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    Rank
    #914
    Born '24
    289
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20192024