Entry № 9045 · Arabic origin

Sahara Sahara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-HAR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Great desert (The Sahara + modern place-name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "great desert (the sahara + modern place-name)".

Sahara is from the Arabic al-Saḥrā' — the great desert.

Great desert (The Sahara + modern place-name) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

صحراء
Transliteration
Saḥrā'
Pronunciation
/ səˈhɑːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sahara stands.

Sahara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Saharas before her.

Real people
Sahara Davenport
American drag performer.
1984 – 2012
In fiction
Sahara
Cussler / Eisner film.
2005

Names connected to Sahara.

The number behind Sahara.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sahara reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.