Entry № 9218 · Hebrew origin

Sara Sara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Princess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "princess".

Sara is from the Hebrew Śārā (שָׂרָה — princess, noblewoman) and parallel Arabic Sāra (سارة). Sarah/Sara in biblical tradition — the matriarch in Abrahamic religions — the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac (Genesis 17:15-16); central to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; one of the matriarchs of all three Abrahamic religions; appears throughout the iconic Hebrew Bible, the Christian Old Testament, and the iconic Qur'an. Princess Sara — Hebrew-Arabic biblical heritage naming.

Princess — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

שָׂרָה
Transliteration
Śārā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sara stands.

Sara 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.

Saras before her.

Real people
Sara Ali Khan
Iconic Bollywood + Filmfare Best Female Debut + Columbia history grad.
born 1995
In fiction
Sarah (biblical)
matriarch wife of Abraham.

Names connected to Sara.

The number behind Sara.

3

The Communicator

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