Sarah
Meaning of Sarah
Sarah glides off the tongue as SAYR-uh, a gentle sound that has carried through centuries of lullabies and roll calls alike. Drawn from the Hebrew word for “princess,” the name has long worn a tiny crown of its own—first in the pages of Genesis, where the matriarch Sarah laughs with surprise at the promise of motherhood, and later on red carpets and concert stages courtesy of Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. In the United States, she rode a wave of popularity that crested in the 1980s and ’90s, when she was a Top-5 head-turner; today she still holds a respectable seat in the top 100, proof that classic charm never goes out of style. Parents love that Sarah is easy to spell, age-proof, and travels well—whether she’s stamping a passport or printing her name in glitter on a first-grade art project. All told, Sarah is the kind of choice that grows gracefully from playground princess to boardroom boss, quietly reminding everyone that a little grace can go a very long way.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as SAYR-uh (/ˈsɛrə/)
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Notable People Named Sarah
| Sarah Bernhardt was a legendary French stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who headlined major plays, even Hamlet, toured the world, won lavish praise, and helped pioneer recordings and early film. |
| Sarah Michelle Gellar - Sarah Michelle Prinze is an American actress discovered as a child who debuted at six in the television film An Invasion of Privacy, starred in Swans Crossing, and won a Daytime Emmy for her breakout as Kendall Hart on All My Children. |
| Sarah Brightman is an English soprano and actress famed for classical crossover music. |
| Sarah Geronimo is a Filipino singer and actress who rose to fame after winning the TV talent show Star for a Night in 2002 and released her debut album in 2003. |
| Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was a powerful English courtier whose close friendship with Queen Anne made her one of the most influential women of her time and a key conduit for royal favor. |
| Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress and television producer with a career spanning five decades on stage and screen that earned six Golden Globes two Primetime Emmys and a place on the 2022 Time 100. |
| Canadian singer and songwriter Sarah McLachlan has sold over 40 million albums, won two Grammys and four Junos for Surfacing, and founded the Lilith Fair tour. |
| Sarah Catharine Paulson is an acclaimed American actress who has won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Tony awards and was named to the Time 100 in 2017. |
| Sarah Polley is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, political activist, and actress who rose to fame as a child in Ramona and Road to Avonlea before starring in films like The Sweet Hereafter, Dawn of the Dead, and Splice. |
| Sarah Jane Brown is an English campaigner for global health and education, founder and president of Theirworld, executive chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education, and cofounder of A World at School. |
| Sarah Harding was an English singer, model and actress who rose to fame on Popstars the Rivals with Girls Aloud, achieving major UK chart success and winning a 2009 BRIT Award for The Promise. |
| Sarah Josepha Hale - Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an American writer and activist who edited Godeys Ladys Book, wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb, and championed Thanksgiving and the Bunker Hill Monument. |
| Dame Sarah Storey is a British cyclist and swimmer who has won multiple Paralympic gold medals and six British national track titles in able bodied competition. |
| Sarah Blaffer Hrdy - Sarah Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist whose pioneering work on the evolutionary roots of female behavior in primates earned her the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Lifetime Career Award in 2013. |
| English novelist Sarah Harriet Burney, daughter of composer Charles Burney and half-sister of writer Frances Burney, saw intermittent success with her novels. |
