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Sara

Hebrew
"princess"
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Grace Royal
By Grace Royal
Updated Sat Apr 12 2025

Sara Origin and Meaning

The name Sara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess".

Sara, the streamlined form of Sarah, makes this ancient name feel more modern, but perhaps a bit lighter weight.

Some Old Testament sources give Sara 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 Sarah. But most sources authenticate Sarah as the Biblical classic and Sara as the variation.

Currently in the US, there are about two baby girls named Sarah for every one given the Sara spelling.

Nameberry visitors have debated whether Sara is pronounced differently from Sarah. In the US, the answer is, usually not, but in some countries, Sara is sah-rah while Sarah's first syllable rhymes with hair.

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Sara Rank in US Top 1000

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Sara Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

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Popularity of the name Sara

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Famous People Named Sara

  • Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles)
    American actress
  • Sara Ullrika Watkins
    American singer,songwriter
  • Sara Edwards
    Welsh television presenter
  • Sara Trevor Teasdale
    American poet
  • Sara Elena Ramirez
    Mexican,American actress
  • Sara Sothern (born Sara Viola Warmbrodt)
    American actress
  • Sara Sampaio
    Portuguese model
  • Sara Beth Bareilles
    American singer,songwriter
  • Sara Quin
    Canadian musician
  • Sara Pennypacker
    American novelist
  • Sara Shepherd
    American novelist
  • Sara Errani
    Italian tennis player
  • Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt
    mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Sara Elizabeth Dallin
    English singer
  • Sara Allgood
    Irish actress
  • Sara Sheen
    English actress
  • Sara Carter
    American singer
  • Sara Coleridge
    English novelist
  • Sara Helena Lumholdt
    Swedish singer
  • Sara Khan
    Indian model and actress
  • Sara Arjun
    Indian actress
  • Sara Miller McCune
    executive chairman and founder of Sage Publications
  • Sara Waisglass
    Canadian actress
  • Sara Llana Garcia
    Spanish rhythmic gymnast
  • Sara Elizabeth “Lizzy” Tanner
    daughter of youtube stars Johnny and Sara Tanner, part of Tannerites & Yawi Vlogs
  • Sara Jean Underwood (b.1984) American Model
    Playboy Magazine Playmate of the Year for 2007
  • Sara Natividad Long
    Spanish American Model , also goes by the name Sarita

The name Sara in Pop Culture

  • Sara Crewe
    main character in book/movie "A Little Princess"
  • Sara Stanley
    main character in L.M. Montgomery's "The Story Girl" and "The Golden Road"
  • Sara Yarnell
    main character on TV's "Sara"
  • Sara Tancredi
    character on TV's "Prison Break"
  • Sara Graiman
    character on TV's "Knight Rider"
  • Sara Fitzgerald
    character in Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper"
  • Sara Sidle
    character on TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
  • Sara
    main character in movie "Race to Witch Mountain"
  • Sara Pezzini
    character in comic book series "Witchblade"
  • Sara Kingdom
    character on TV's "Doctor Who"
  • Sara De Roose
    main character on Belgian soap "Sara"
  • Sara Evans
    character on TV's "One Tree Hill"
  • Sara Spooner
    character on TV's "King of Queens"
  • Sara Warrington
    character on British soap "Family Affairs"
  • Sara Kingsley
    character on "Grandfathered"
  • Sara Moore
    character in "Mindhunters"
  • Sara Taylor
    character in "Penthouse North"
  • Sara Harvey
    reoccurring character on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"
  • Sara Rice
    character on Netflix's original series "Orange Is the New Black"
  • Sara Lance aka White Canary
    character in DC Universe and in "Legends of Tomorrow" and "Arrow"
  • Sara Smolinsky
    character from Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
  • Sara Ryder
    character in the game "Mass Effect: Andromeda"
  • Sara
    character in "Over the Garden Wall"
  • Sara Howard
    character in "The Alienist"
  • "Sara"
    Bob Dylan song
  • "Zak and Sara
    " Ben Folds song
  • "Sara
    " Fleetwood Mac song
  • "Sara
    " Starship song
  • "Sara Smile"
    Daryl Hall and John Oates song
  • Sara Lee
    food company
  • Sara
    a character in the anime/mange Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

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