Sara

Where Sara comes from

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sara
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Sara through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #110 among girls, with 165 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1979
    Sara Bareilles born
    American recording artist; pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
  3. 1981
    Peak, #26
    11,359 babies named Sara, the most in any year.
  4. 1987
    Sara Errani born
    Italian tennis player
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #50.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
Namesakes
  • Sara Bareilles · American recording artist; pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist, born 1979
  • Sara Errani · Italian tennis player, born 1987
  • Sara Teasdale · American writer and poet, 1884–1933
  • Sara Ramirez · Mexican-American actor and singer, born 1975
  • Sara Gilbert · American actress, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.