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“lady, princess”
[ˈsaːra] · Czech
01 / Meaning & origin
Sára is a feminine given name documented in Czech, Danish, Finnish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Hebrew שָׂרָה, with the stated meaning “lady, princess”.
Separate records with matching spellings: Sara (Catalan, Danish), Sara (Danish, German), Sárá (Northern Sami), Sâra (Kalaallisut), Sāra (Latvian), Šara (Slovene)
Meaning: “lady, princess”
From Hebrew שָׂרָה (Sara, “lady, princess”), which was originally converted from the given name שָׂרָי (saráy, “Sarai”).
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Switzerland, 2025: 2 girls (rank 1792).
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03 / By the numbers
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2000–2025 Spelling: Sára
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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | 1 | 1,180 | observed |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | 1 | 1,272 | observed |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | 1 | 1,368 | observed |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | 1 | 1,460 | observed |
| 2010 | 1 | 1,490 | observed |
| 2011 | 2 | 1,275 | observed |
| 2012 | 1 | 1,588 | observed |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | 2 | 1,380 | observed |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,719 | observed |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,749 | observed |
| 2018 | 2 | 1,512 | observed |
| 2019 | 2 | 1,527 | observed |
| 2020 | 2 | 1,559 | observed |
| 2021 | 1 | 1,806 | observed |
| 2022 | 6 | 892 | observed |
| 2023 | 3 | 1,310 | observed |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,826 | observed |
| 2025 | 2 | 1,792 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Sára” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Sara— “princess”
Sarah now and then occurs in England, as with Sara Beauchamp, (_temp._ Ed. I.,) but I suspect that she as well as Sarrota de Multon, who lived in the former reign, were alterations of some of the derivatives of the Teutonic prefix _Sig_—victory, as the masculine Saher or Serlo certainly came from Sigeheri. Sarah was never commonly used till after the Reformation, when it began to grow very popular, with its contraction Sally; and at the same time it was adopted as the…
Sarah now and then occurs in England, as with Sara Beauchamp, (_temp._ Ed. I.,) but I suspect that she as well as Sarrota de Multon, who lived in the former reign, were alterations of some of the derivatives of the Teutonic prefix _Sig_—victory, as the masculine Saher or Serlo certainly came from Sigeheri. Sarah was never commonly used till after the Reformation, when it began to grow very popular, with its contraction Sally; and at the same time it was adopted as the equivalent for no less than three Irish names—Sadhbh (pronounced Soyv), Sorcha (bright), and Saraid (excellent). The two first are still in use; but Highlanders make a still stranger use of Sarah, which they use to translate their native More (great), perhaps in consequence of its meaning.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter II (Patriarchal Names), Section II (Abi) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Hungary — KSH published top 50 newborn first names, 2000 and 2025
Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), from Ministry of Interior register data · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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