Sarah
Top 1000
About Sarah
Sarah was derived from the Hebrew word sarah, meaning "princess." Sarah is an Old Testament name — she was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. According to the Book of Genesis, Sarah was originally called Sarai, but had her name changed by God to the more auspicious Sarah when she was 90 years old.
Sarah is a timeless classic, as perpetually stylish as it is traditional. Sarah is still widely used, but with such a range of images and variations that any child can make it her own.
Sarah was a Top 10 name from 1978 to 2002, and though it has slipped in popularity, it's still one of the most widely used names that start with S. The Sara spelling is another popular option, and diminutives Sadie and Sally are used independently.
A few of her many prominent namesakes are iconic actress Sarah Bernhardt, jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, comedian Sarah Silverman, and actress/fashionista Sarah Jessica Parker.
Pronounced SAIR-ah.
As of October 2026, Sarah ranked #90 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #3 in 1993, Nameberry popularity #205.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #50 | 4,714 | 2,638.9 |
| 2015 | #57 | 4,534 | 2,539.9 |
| 2016 | #57 | 4,426 | 2,497.7 |
| 2017 | #62 | 4,033 | 2,336 |
| 2018 | #66 | 3,778 | 2,220.9 |
| 2019 | #81 | 3,322 | 1,979.3 |
| 2020 | #86 | 3,069 | 1,898.5 |
| 2021 | #91 | 2,862 | 1,744.2 |
| 2022 | #95 | 2,805 | 1,710.2 |
| 2023 | #91 | 2,767 | 1,724.4 |
| 2024 | #95 | 2,697 | 1,664.6 |
| 2025 | #90 | 2,710 | 1,686.1 |
World rankings
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- Kate
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Sarah on lists
Famous Sarahs
- Sarah
Biblical wife of Abraham
- Sarah Childress Polk
US First Lady wife of 11th President James Knox Polk.
- Sarah
daughter of Asher, granddaughter of Israel
- Sarah Churchill
Duchess of Marlborough; favorite of Britain's Queen Anne
- Rosine "Sarah" Bernhardt
French actress
- Sarah Brightman
English singer,songwriter and actress
- Sarah Margaret Ferguson
Duchess of York
- Sarah Lee Bolger
Irish actress
- Sarah Anne Wayne Callies
American actress
- Sarah Louise Christine (Cassandra) Chalke
Canadian actress
- Sarah Chen
Taiwanese singer
- Sarah Clarke
American actress
- Sarah Dessen
American writer
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
American actress
- Sarah Hadland
British actress
- Sarah Nicole Harding
English singer
- Sarah Gorden
American soccer player
- Sarah Elizabeth Hughes
American figure skater
- Sarah Jane Hyland
American actress
- Sarah Jones
American actress
- Sarah Ann McLachlan
Canadian singer
- Sarah Murdoch
Australian model
- Sarah Louise Palin
American politician, 9th governor of Alaska
- Sarah Jessica Parker
American actress
- Sarah Catharine Paulson
American actress
- Sarah E. Polley
Canadian actress
- Sarah Kate Silverman
American actress and comedian
- Sarah Lois Vaughan
American singer
- Sarah Fay Wright
American actress
- Sarah Jane Millican
English comedian
- Sarah Trimmer
English writer
- Sarah Fisher
Canadian actress
- Sarah Gilman
American actress
- Sarah Beeny
British TV presenter
- Sarah Fredrika Sjöström
Swedish swimmer
- Sarah Goss
New Zealand rugby player
- Sarah Andersen
American artist
- Sarah Brianna Stanley (b. 2009)
daughter American musician Paul Stanley
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
White House press secretary, daughter of Mike Huckabee
- Sarah Close
English singer,songwriter and YouTube personality
- Sarah Lemkus
vegan lifestyle YouTuber from New Zealand
- Sarah Morgan
English author
- Sarah Lacina
contestant and winner of reality tv series Survivor
- Sarah Kennedy
British radio and television presenter
- Sarah Gorden
American soccer player
- Sarah Janet Maas
American author
- Sarah Dorothy Little
American actress
Sarah in pop culture
- Sarah Sanderson
character in Disney's "Hocus Pocus."
- "Forgetting Sarah Marshall
" 2008 film
- "Jack and Sarah
" 1995 film
- Sarah Blake
character on TV's "Supernatural"
- Sarah Nelson (born Sarah Salvatore)
character on TV's "The Vampire Diaries"
- Sarah Connor
character in "The Terminator" series
- Sarah O'Brien
character on TV's "Downton Abbey"
- Sarah Sawyer
character on TV's "Sherlock"
- Sarah Brown
character in musical "Guys and Dolls"
- Sarah
Charlotte Sherwood, character in "The Face on the Milk Carton" by Caroline B. Cooney
- Sarah Jane Smith
character on TVs "Doctor Who"
- Sarah
character in "Beautiful" by Amy Reed
- Sarah
character in film "Children Of The Corn"
- Sarah Williams
character on TV's "Veronica Mars"
- Sarah
character in "The Last of Us" video game
- Sarah Witting
main character in Patricia McLachlan's "Sarah Plain and Tall"
- Sarah Fox
main character in film"My Babysitter's a Vampire"
- Sarah Manning
main character on TV's "Orphan Black"
- Sarah Harding
character in "Jurassic Park" series
- Sarah 'Sary' Williamson
character in "A Woman called Fancy" by Frank Yerby
- Sarah Williams
character in 1986 film "Labyrinth"
- Sarah Jane "Pittypat" Hamilton
character in "Gone with the Wind"
- Sarah Essen
character in "Batman" series
- Sister Sarah
character in "The Polar Express"
- "Sarah
" novel by Laura Albert aka JT LeRoy
- "Sarah"
song by Eskimo Joe
- "Sarah Smiles"
song by Panic! at the Disco"
- Sarah
antagonist in the Line Webtoon, Winter Woods
- Sarah
character on Ed, Edd n Eddy
- Aunt Sarah Reed
the cruel aunt of Jane Eyre, also a character in Jane Eyre
- Sarah Kerrigan
character in the Starcraft series
- Sarah Lynn
character in "Bojack Horseman" series
- Sarah Cameron
character in Netflix's "Outer Banks"
- Sarah Rogers
Steve Rogers mother and the name of his future daughter
- Sarah Thompson
main character in movie "To Grandmother's House We Go"
- Sarah "Rose" O'Reilly
character in movie "We're the Millers"
Variations & nicknames
- SarettaSpanish
- SassaSwedish
- SaaraFinnish
- SaraqaPersian
- SarraRussian
- ZaritaSpanish
- SaretteFrench
- SaraidIrish
- SaraiIrish
- SorchaIrish
- SalciaPolish
- SarikaHungarian
- SaritIsraeli
- SaritaIsraeli
- ZaideeFrench
- SasaEastern European
- SariEastern European
- ZsazsaEastern European
- KalaHawaiian
- SariceSwiss
- SaroltaHungarian
- SalliFinnish
- CharitaSpanish
- SarotteFrench
- CharaSpanish
- SarkaRussian