Sara
Meaning of Sara
Sara, a streamlined variant of the Hebrew biblical name Sarah, derives from שָׂרָה (Sārah), conventionally glossed as “princess” or “noblewoman,” and it entered the Anglo-American onomastic repertoire through the Latin and Greek scriptures long before the Reformation; its elision of the terminal h became common in medieval England and later gained continental currency, especially in Romance-language contexts, before being re-imported to North America. The form, pronounced SAIR-uh (/ˈsɛərə/), carries enduring associations with the matriarch revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, a linkage that confers an aura of antiquity and quiet authority while remaining orthographically economical. United States birth data reveal a protracted crest in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s—culminating at rank 26 in 1981—followed by a measured descent that has placed the name in the mid-one-hundreds since 2020; this trajectory illustrates the typical life-cycle of a classic appellation that experiences generational saturation yet retains baseline familiarity. Because the spelling omits the aspirate consonant, parents often perceive Sara as visually softer and internationally adaptable, qualities that, coupled with its succinct phonetic profile, sustain its appeal in an era that favors names both globally legible and historically grounded.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as SAIR-uh (/ˈsɛərə/)
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Notable People Named Sara
| Sara Evans is an American country singer and songwriter with five Billboard country number ones, over six million albums sold, many top ten hits, and awards and major nominations from the ACM and CMA. |
| Sara Bareilles is an American singer songwriter and actress with two Grammys, multimillion sales, Emmy and Tony nominations, and a place on the VH1 Top 100 Greatest Women in Music list. |
| Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio, known as Inday Sara, is a Filipino lawyer serving as the 15th and youngest vice president of the Philippines, the third woman and third Mindanaoan to hold the office, a former Davao City mayor and vice mayor, and the daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte. |
| Sara Anne Niemietz is a singer songwriter and actress known for Broadway and major venue performances, widely viewed YouTube videos, collaborations with Snuffy Walden and Melissa Manchester, and regular work with Postmodern Jukebox. |
| Sara Elena Ramirez Vargas is a Mexican actor from Mazatlan who moved to the United States at eight and later earned a fine arts degree from the Juilliard School. |
| Sara Bettine Storer is an Australian country singer-songwriter who set a record with seven Golden Guitars in 2004, has 21 total, scored multiple top 30 albums, won an ARIA for Silos in 2016, and performed with the trio Songbirds and her brother Greg. |
| Sara Berner was an American actress and dialect specialist who moved from vaudeville to radio and animated voice work, headlined an NBC series, and became best known as telephone operator Mabel Flapsaddle on The Jack Benny Program. |
| Sara Seager is a Canadian American astronomer and MIT professor celebrated for pioneering research on exoplanets and their atmospheres, authoring two textbooks, and earning a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship. |
| Sara Jovanovic, known as Sara Jo, is a Serbian singer, songwriter, model, and actress born in Rome who rose to fame by finishing third on Prvi glas Srbije in 2012 and later represented Serbia at Eurovision 2013 with Moje 3, though they did not reach the final. |
| Sara Treleaven Blakely is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Spanx in Atlanta and was honored by Time and Forbes as one of the most influential and powerful women. |
| Sara Trevor Teasdale, an American lyric poet from St. Louis, took the name Filsinger after her 1914 marriage and won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 collection Love Songs. |
| Sara Gilbert is an American actress best known as Darlene Conner on Roseanne and The Conners, creator and former co-host of The Talk, and for her recurring role as Leslie Winkle on The Big Bang Theory. |
| Sara Ganim is an American journalist and podcast host who broke the Penn State Sandusky scandal at the Patriot News, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting as one of the youngest winners, later reported for CNN, and now serves as a fellow at the University of Florida Brechner Center and a visiting professor at Columbia Journalism School. |
| Sara Pinto Sampaio is a Portuguese model and actress best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel, and she also serves as a Giorgio Armani beauty ambassador and works with Calzedonia. |
| Sara Ann Roosevelt was the second wife of James Roosevelt I, mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt. |
