Gender: F
Origin: Variation of SARAH
Meaning: "princess"
Popularity in 2008: #92
Streamlined form of Sarah makes it feel more modern, but perhaps a bit lighter weight. Some Old Testament sources give this as a variation of Sarai, the Biblical personage's original name, and some give it as the authentic form of the new name of Isaac's 90-year-old mother. But most sources authenticate Sarah as the Biblical classic and Sara as the variation.
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