Sara

Where Sara comes from

From Latin Sara (“Sarah”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sara
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #110 among girls — 165 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1979
    Sara Bareilles born
    American recording artist; pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
  3. 1981
    Peak, #26
    11,359 babies named Sara — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1987
    Sara Errani born
    Italian tennis player
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #50.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
Namesakes
  • Sara Bareilles · American recording artist; pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist, born 1979
  • Sara Errani · Italian tennis player, born 1987
  • Sara Teasdale · American writer and poet, 1884–1933
  • Sara Ramirez · Mexican-American actor and singer, born 1975
  • Sara Gilbert · American actress, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.