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Sarah
Pronunciation Gender Female Language(s)
Hebrew Meaning "noblewoman", "princess",
[1] Related names
Sara
Sarai
Sadie
Sasa
Seira
Sairah
Sally
Sarah is a common feminine given name of
Hebrew origin.
[2]
[3]
[4] It derives its popularity from the biblical matriarch
Sarah , the wife of
Abraham and a major figure in the
Abrahamic religions . It is a consistently popular given name across
Europe ,
North America ,
[1] and the
Middle East — being commonly used as a female first name by
Jews ,
Muslims , and
Christians alike, and remaining popular also among non-religious members of cultures influenced by these religions.
In
Hebrew , Sarah (שָׂרָה) is the feminine form of the noun Sar (שַׂר), which commonly translates to "chief", "ruler" or "prince". It is also related to the verb שָׂרָה, which is also the basis of the name
Israel .
[5] In
Modern Hebrew , Sarah (שָׂרָה) is the feminine form of the word for "minister".
In the
United States , Sarah has been counted among the top 150 given names since 1880, when name popularity statistics were first recorded in the United States. Sarah was ranked among the top 10 names from 1978 to 2002, reaching a plateau of popularity from the early 1980s to 1988. Every year since and including 1989, it has fallen in popularity, but it remained the 30th most–popular name for newborn girls in 2010. Its most common variant spelling, Sara, was number 121.
[6]
The name has been similarly popular in Ireland and the
United Kingdom . In
England , it gained popularity after the
Protestant Reformation .
[1] In 2014, Sarah ranked as the tenth most popular female baby name in
Ireland .
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In
Nazi Germany , female Jews who did not have "typically Jewish" given names were forced to add "Sara" as of January 1939, whereas males were forced to add "
Israel ".
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Translations
Albanian: Sara
Amharic: ሳራ (Sara)
Arabic: سارة
Aramaic:ܣܪܐ
Armenian: Սառա
Azerbaijani: Sara
Bashkir:
Сара (Sara)
Belarusian: Сара (Sara)
Balochi: saraa
Bengali: সারাহ (Sārāha)
Biblical Greek: Sarra
Biblical Latin: Sara
Bosnian: Sara
Bulgarian: Сара (Sara)
Catalan: Sara
Chinese Simplified: 莎拉 (
pinyin : Shā lā)
Chinese Traditional: 莎拉 (
pinyin : Shā lā)
Croatian: Sara
Czech:
Sára
Danish: Sara
Dutch: Sarah, Sara
Estonian: Saara
English: Sarah, Sara
Faroese:
Sára
Finnish: Saara, Sari,
Saija , Salli, Sara
French: Sarah
German: Sarah, Sara
Greek: Σάρα (Sára)
Gujarati: સારાહ (Sārāha)
Haitian Creole: Sara
Hawaiian: Kala
Hebrew: שרה (Sārā)
Hindi: सराह (Sarāha)
Hungarian:
Sára , Sári, Sárika, Sarolta, Sasa
Icelandic: Sara
Indonesian: Sarah, Sara
Iranian: سارا
Italian: Sara
Irish: Sorcha, Saraid
Japanese: サラ (Sara), 沙羅 (Sara)
Kannada: ಸಾರಾ (Sārā)
Khmer: សារ៉ា (Sara)
Korean: 사라 (Sara)
Lithuanian: Sara
Macedonian: Сара (Sara)
Maori: Hara
Marathi: सारा (Sārā)
Mongolian: Сара (Sara)
Malayalam: സാറ, Sara, Saramma
Nepali: सारा (Sārā)
Norwegian: Sara
Persian: سارا
Polish: Sara
Portuguese: Sara
Romanian: Sara
Russian: Сара (Sara), Sarka, Sarra
Sanskrit: सार (Sara)
Serbian: Сара/Sara
Slovak:
Sára
Slovene: Sara
Somali: Sahra
Spanish: Sara, Sarita, Zara
Swedish: Sara
Tamil: சாரா (Cārā)
Telugu: సారా (Sārā)
Thai: ซาร่าห์ (Sā r̀ā h̄̒)
Tigrigna: ሳራ (Sara)
Turkish: Sara, Sare
Uzbek: Sora
Ukrainian: Сара (Sara)
Urdu: سارہ
Vietnamese: Sara
Welsh: Sara
Yiddish: שרה (Soro), Sirke
People
Sarah, Crown Princess of Brunei
Sarah, Duchess of York , British author, television personality, and former member of the British royal family
Sarah Abo , Australian television presenter, journalist and reporter
Sara Ahmed , scholar and author
Sarah Alexander , English actress
Sarah Aroeste , Sephardic Jewish musician
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo , American journalist and activist
Sarah Attar , Saudi Arabian-American distance runner
Sarah Austin (entrepreneur) , American author and tech entrepreneur
Sarah Baartman , Khoikhoi woman
Sarah Franklin Bache , daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read
Sarah Baker (actress) , American actress and comedian
Sarah Beeny , English property developer and TV presenter
Sarah Bernhardt , French stage actress
Sarah Uriarte Berry , American actress and singer
Sarah Blasko , Australian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Sarah Bolger , Irish actress
Sarah Bonnici , Maltese singer
Sarah Borwell , British tennis player
Sarah A. Bowman , Irish American innkeeper, restaurateur, and madam
Sarah Rees Brennan , Irish children’s writer
Sarah Emi Bridcutt , Japanese voice actress
Sarah Brightman , British singer and actress
Sarah Jane Brown , British campaigner for global health and education
Sarah Bryce , Scottish cricketer
Sarah Bush Lincoln , stepmother of Abraham Lincoln
Sarah Buxton , American musician
Sarah G. Buxton , American actress
Sarah Wayne Callies , American actress
Sarah Carter , Canadian-American actress
Sarah Chalke , Canadian actress and model
Sarah Champion , British politician
Sarah Chang , Korean American classical violinist
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough , British duchess
Sarah Churchill (actress) , British actress and dancer
Sarah Clarke , American actress
Sarah Colonna , American stand-up comedian, actress, and comedy writer
Sarah Connolly , English mezzo—soprano
Sarah Connor (singer) , German singer
Sarah Palfrey Cooke , American tennis player
Sarah Cooper , Jamaican American comedian and author
Sarah Coyte , Australian cricketer
Sarah Cracknell , English singer-songwriter and lead singer of the electronic music band Saint Etienne
Sarah Darling , American musician
Sarah Dash , American singer
Sarah Davis (politician) , American politician
Sarah Desjardins , Canadian actress
Sarah Dessen , American writer and novelist
Sarah Dines , British politician
Sarah Dorsey , American novelist and historian
Sarah Douglas (actress) , English actress
Sarah Drew , American actress and director
Sarah Dunant , English writer, broadcaster and critic
Sarah Edmondson , Canadian actress and podcaster
Sarah Emma Edmonds , British North America-born woman
Sarah Edwards (actress) , American actress
Sarah Edwards (missionary) , American mystic
Sarah Fyge Egerton , British writer
Sarah Elfreth , American politician in Maryland
Sarah Elliott (cricketer) , Australian women’s cricketer
Sarah Ellis (author) , Canadian children’s writer and librarian
Sarah Elmaleh , American voice actor
Sarah Engels , German pop singer and TV personality
Sarah Featherstone , British architect
Sarah Feinberg , American civil servant
Sarah Ferguson (journalist) , Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter
Sarah Fielding , British writer
Sarah Dawn Finer , Swedish singer, songwriter and actress
Sarah Finnegan , American artistic gymnast
Sarah Fisher , American race car driver
Sarah Forbes Bonetta , West African princess
Sarah Foot , British historian and Anglican priest
Sarah Frey , American farmer and entrepreneur
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams , English poet and hymnwriter
Sarah Fuller (athlete) , American soccer and football player
Sarah Gadon , Canadian actress
Sarah Gailey , American author
Sarah Michelle Gellar , American actress
Sarah Geronimo , Filipino singer and actress
Sarah Gilbert , English vaccinologist
Sarah Godlewski , American businesswoman and politician
Sarah Goldberg , Canadian actress
Sarah Good , woman executed in the Salem Witch Trials
Sarah E. Goode , American entrepreneur and inventor
Sarah Goodridge , American artist
Sarah Gorden , American soccer player
Sarah Urist Green , American art museum curator, author, and creator
Sarah Greene , English TV presenter
Sarah Greene (actress) , Irish actress and singer
Sarah Moore Grimké , American abolitionist
Sarah Grochala , British playwright
Sarah Harrington , British artist
Sarah Israelit Groll , Israeli Egyptologist and linguist
Sarah Ogan Gunning , American songwriter and folk singer
Sarah Hadland , English actress
Sarah Haffner , German—British author, painter and active feminist
Sarah Haider , American writer, public speaker, and political activist
Sarah Josepha Hale , American writer, activist and editor
Sarah C. Hall (1832-1926), American physician, suffragist
Sarah Tyson Hallowell , American art curator
Sarah Harding , English singer, model and actress
Sarah Harmer , Canadian singer, songwriter and environmental activist
Sarah Hart (disambiguation) , several people
Sarah Hay , American actress and ballerina
Sarah Heap (1870–1960), New Zealand physical education teacher and drill mistress
Sarah Hegazi , Egyptian socialist, writer and lesbian activist
Sarah Henderson , Australian politician, lawyer and former journalist
Sarah Hirini , New Zealand rugby Union player
Sarah Hirshland (born 1975), chief executive officer of the
United States Olympic Committee
Sarah A. Hoyt , Portuguese-born American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy , American anthropologist and primatologist
Sarah Hudson (singer) , American singer and musician
Sarah A. Hughes (1847-1816), African Methodist Episcopal preacher
Sarah T. Hughes , American lawyer and federal judge
Sarah Hughes , American politician and former competitive figure skater
Sarah Hyland , American actress
Sarah Ichioka , American urban planner and art curator
Sarah Idan , Iraqi-American model, television host, musician, beauty pageant titleholder, and politician
Sarah Iliev , French female tennis player
Sarah Illingworth , English-born New Zealand former cricketer
Sarah Imovbioh , Nigerian basketball player
Sarah Inghelbrecht , Belgian road and track cyclist
Sarah Ioannides , British conductor, collaborator and multimedia
Sarah Irving , Canadian businesswoman
Sarah Isgur , American lawyer and political operative
Sarah Iversen , Danish handball player
Sarah Noble Ives , American painter, illustrator and writer
Sarah Yorke Jackson , First Lady of the United States
Sarah Jaffe , American musician from Denton, Texas
Sarah Jarosz , American musician
Sarah Jeffery , Canadian actress
Sarah Orne Jewett , American novelist, short story writer and poet
Sarah Anne Johnson , Canadian artist
Sarah Iles Johnston , American classical scholar
Sarah Jones (screen actress) , American actress
Sarah Jurgens , Canadian actress, producer, casting director, model, photographer and multimedia artist
Sarah Kamya , creator of Little Free Diverse Library project
Sarah Kane , English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director
Sarah Kaufman , Canadian mixed martial artist
Sarah Kendall , Australian comedian
Sarah Kendzior , American author, anthropologist, researcher, and scholar
Sarah Kennedy , British DJ
Sarah Keyworth , English stand-up comedian
Sarah Khan , Pakistani actress
Sarah Kinsley , American singer-songwriter
Sarah Knauss , American supercentenarian
Sarah Kemble Knight , American teacher and businesswoman
Sarah Koenig , American journalist and podcast host
Sarah Kofman , French philosopher
Sarah Lacina , American reality show contestant
Sarah Lahbati , Swiss-born Filipino actress and reality star
Sarah Lancashire , English actress
Sarah Lancaster , American actress
Sarah Lane , American ballet dancer
Sarah Lawrence (educator) , English educator, writer and literary editor
Sarah Levy , Canadian actress
Sarah Lind , Canadian actress
Sarah Logan , American professional wrestler
Sarah Longwell , American political strategist and publisher
Sarah Lucas , English photographer and sculptor
Sarah J. Maas , American writer
Sarah Ladipo Manyika , British-Nigerian writer
Sarah Mardini , Syrian former competition swimmer, lifeguard and human rights activist
Sarah Y. Mason , American screenwriter and script supervisor
Sarah McBride , American transgender rights activist and politician
Sarah McGuinness , Irish singer, composer, producer, director, and screenwriter
Sarah Galt Elwood McKee , Canadian social reformer and temperance leader
Sarah McLachlan , Canadian musician, singer and songwriter
Sarah McLeod (musician) , Australian singer-songwriter
Sarah Meier , Swiss figure skater
Sarah Newcomb Merrick , Canadian-born American educator, writer, businesswoman and physician
Sarah Miles , British actress
Sarah Millican , English comedian, writer and presenter
Sarah Mirr , American soccer player
Sarah Monette , American novelist and short story writer
Sarah Mortensen , Danish basketballer
Sarah Mullally , British Anglican bishop, Lord Spiritual and former nurse
Sarah Murdoch , British-Australian model, actress, and television presenter
Sarah Natochenny , American voice actress and film director
Sarah Nemtsov , German composer
Sarah Neufeld , Canadian musician
Sarah Newton , British politician
Sarah Niles , British film, TV and theatre actress
Sarah Nixey , British singer-songwriter
Sarah Noriega , American volleyball player, collegiate champion and Olympic athlete
Sarah Nurse , Canadian ice hockey player
Sarah Nuttall , South African academic and cultural critic
Sarah Ockwell-Smith , English writer
Sarah O’Connor , American molecular biologist
Sarah Onyango Obama , Kenyan educator and philanthropist
Sarah Olney , British politician
Sarah Oppenheimer , American artist
Sarah Ortmeyer , German artist
Sarah Osborne , colonist in the Massachusetts Bay colony and one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692
Sarah Otto , Canadian scientist
Sarah Ourahmoune , French former female boxer
Sarah Outen , British athlete and adventurer
Sarah Owen , British politician and trade unionist
Sarah Palin , American politician, commentator, author and TV personality
Sarah Parish , English actress
Sarah Jessica Parker , American actress and TV producer
Sarah Paulson , American actress
Sarah Jo Pender , American murderer
Sarah Pett , British medical researcher
Sarah Phelps , British television screenwriter, radio writer, playwright and television producer
Sarah Pinborough , English author and screenwriter
Sarah Pinsker , American science fiction and fantasy author
Sarah Polley , Canadian filmmaker, writer, political activist and retired actress
Sarah Pudifin-Jones , South African lawyer
Sarah Quigley , New Zealand author
Sarah Quintrell , English writer, producer and actress
Sarah Quraishi , Pakistani aerospace engineer
Sarah Rafferty , American film and TV actress
Sarah Ramos , American actress
Sarah N. Randolph , American educator, school principal, historian, and an author
Sarah Rector , African American member of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation
Sarah Reeves , American musician and singer
Sarah E. Reisman , American chemist
Sarah Mower Requa , American philanthropist and California pioneer
Sarah Rice (1955–2024), U.S. stage actress
Sarah Rice (banker) (died 1842), English businesswoman
Sarah Richardson , Canadian interior designer and television personality
Sarah Roberts (actress) , Australian TV and film actress
Sarah Robles , American weightlifter
Sarah Roemer , American actress
Sarah Rogers Haight , American traveler and writer
Sarah Rowe , Australian rules footballer
Sarah Ruden , American writer
Sarah Ruhl , American playwright, poet, professor, and essayist
Sarah Huckabee Sanders , American politician and political press secretary
Sarah Schulman , American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist, and AIDS historian
Sarah Shahi , American actress
Sarah Sherman , American comedian, actress and screenwriter
Sarah Siddons , Welsh actress
Sarah Silverman , American comedian, actress and writer
Sarah Sjöström , Swedish swimmer
Sarah Slean , Canadian singer-songwriter, composer and musician
Sarah K. Smith , artist and educator
Sarah Kirkland Snider , American composer
Sarah Snook , Australian actress
Sarah Solemani , English actress, writer and activist
Sarah Springman (born 1956), British-Swiss triathlete, civil engineer, and academic
Sarah Stiles , American singer-actor
Sarah Stock , American professional wrestler
Sarah Sutherland , Canadian-American actress
Sarah Taylor (cricketer) , English women cricketer
Sarah Teather , British politician
Sarah Thomas (American football official) , American football official
Sarah Thomas (marathon swimmer) , American marathon swimmer
Sarah Thompson (actress) , American actress
Sarah Thomson (publisher) , Canadian politician
Sarah Thornton , Canadian writer, ethnographer and sociologist
Sarah Tishkoff , American geneticist
Sarah Treem , American playwright, writer and producer
Sarah Trigger , British actress
Sarah Trimmer , British author and editor
Sarah True , American triathlete
Sarah E. Turner , American professor of economics and education and Souder Family Endowed Chair at the University of Virginia
Sarah Ulmer , New Zealand former cyclist
Sarah Unsicker , American politician
Sarah Updike Goddard , American printer and newspaper publisher
Sarah Utterback , American actress
Sarah Uwera , Rwandan cricketer and a former captain of the Rwanda women's cricket team
Sarah Vaillancourt , Canadian women’s ice hockey player
Sarah Van Den Boom , French animation film director and co-founder of the Papy3D Productions
Sarah Vaughan , American jazz and classical singer
Sarah Vaughan (writer) , British writer and journalist
Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey , English noblewoman and banker
Sarah Vinci , Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player
Sarah Vine , British columnist
Sarah Vogel , American farm advocate, author, former politician, and lawyer
Sarah Voss , German artistic gymnast
Sarah Vowell , American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress
Sarah Walsh , Australian soccer player
Sarah Washington , British singer
Sarah Waters , Welsh novelist
Sarah Weddington , American attorney, law professor, advocate for women's rights and reproductive health, and member of the Texas House of Representatives
Sarah Leah Whitson , American lawyer and the executive director
Sarah Wiedenheft , Dutch-American voice actress
Sarah Wildes , wrongly convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
Sarah Anne Williams , American voice actress
Sarah D. Winans , American organizational leader
Sarah Winchester , American heiress and occultist
Sarah Winnemucca , Northern Paiute writer, activist and educator
Sarah Wollaston , British politician
Sarah Woodward , British actress
Sarah Wright , American actress
Sarah X Dylan , American Internet radio host, Internet television host, former radio producer and talk show co-host
Sarah Yates , British artist
Sarah York , American pen pal of Manuel Noriega
Sarah Young (author) , American Christian author
Sarah Young (DJ) , British DJ and record producer
Sarah Young (immunologist) , New Zealand immunologist
Sarah Yuster , American painter
Sarah Zadrazil , Austrian association football player
Sarah Zapata , Peruvian-American textile artist
Sarah Zar , American visual artist, songwriter, performance artist, curator, and a musical saw player
Sarah Zechman , professor of business
Sarah Zeid , Jordanian princess
Sarah Zerbes , German algebraic number theorist
Sarah Zettel , American author
Sarah Zucker , American visual artist and writer
Fictional characters
Sarah Connor , a fictional character and the main protagonist of the
Terminator franchise
Sarah Jones, a fictional character from the Welsh animated series
Fireman Sam
Sarah Kerrigan , a character in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft franchise
Sarah Phillips, a fictional character and one of three main protagonists of the 2002
DIC Entertainment television cartoon
Liberty's Kids
Sarah Platt , a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street
Sarah Jane Smith , a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the BBC Television science fiction series Doctor Who and two of its spin-offs
Sarah the Sunday Fairy, a fictional character in the British book series
Rainbow Magic
Sarah Walker (Chuck) , the alias of one of the main characters of the television show Chuck on NBC
Sarah Williams (Labyrinth) , a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth
Other forms
See also
References
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