Sarah (given name)

Sarah is a common feminine given name of Hebrew origin. 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, 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. 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.

The name has been similarly popular in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In England, it gained popularity after the Protestant Reformation. In 2014, Sarah ranked as the tenth most popular female baby name in Ireland.

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".

Translations

 * Albanian: Sara
 * Amharic: ሳራ (Sara)
 * Arabic: سارة
 * Aramaic:ܣܪܐ
 * Armenian: Սառա
 * Azerbaijani: Sara
 * Bashkir: Сара (Sara)
 * Belarusian: Сара (Sara)
 * Balochi: saraa
 * Bengali: সারাহ্, সারাহ (sarah); সারা (sara)
 * 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, Sally
 * 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 Gertrude Banks, American physician and suffragist
 * 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
 * Sarah, a fictional character from the Cartoon Network animated TV series Ed, Edd n Eddy

Other forms

 * Other variants of the name are: Sara (alternatively pronounced )
 * Pet forms of the name are: Sally, Sadie