Sara Girl
How popular is Sara?
#198 girl name in 2025
1,568 baby girls were named Sara in the US in 2025, making it the 198th most popular girl name.
Sara popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #198 for girls (▼ 11 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,568 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-21% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #161 in 2015, #182 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1981 (11,359 girls) |
| Highest rank | #26 in 1981 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sara counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sarah family of names ranked #49 for girls in 2025 (#48 the year before), with 5,080 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah | 2,710 | 53% |
| Sara | 1,568 | 31% |
| Sarai | 733 | 14% |
| Saray | 43 | 1% |
| Sahra | 15 | 0% |
| Sarrah | 5 | 0% |
| Sarra | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sara is most popular
Babies named Sara per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 4.9 per 1,000 (880 girls)
- New York: 3.1 per 1,000 (1,219 girls)
- District of Columbia: 1.8 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Maryland: 1.5 per 1,000 (163 girls)
- Alabama: 1.3 per 1,000 (122 girls)
Sara by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,127 | #110 |
| 1890s | 3,119 | #127 |
| 1900s | 4,210 | #127 |
| 1910s | 15,409 | #106 |
| 1920s | 21,101 | #111 |
| 1930s | 18,261 | #122 |
| 1940s | 20,275 | #121 |
| 1950s | 20,491 | #147 |
| 1960s | 23,044 | #124 |
| 1970s | 56,958 | #27 |
| 1980s | 104,682 | #26 |
| 1990s | 72,170 | #34 |
| 2000s | 44,056 | #57 |
| 2010s | 20,732 | #119 |
| 2020s | 9,558 | #178 |
Girl names about as popular as Sara
Questions
- Is Sara a boy or girl name?
- Sara is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sara were girls.
- How popular is the name Sara?
- 1,568 baby girls were named Sara in the US in 2025, making it the 198th most popular girl name.
- When was Sara most popular?
- Sara peaked in 1981, when 11,359 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #26 in 1981.
- How many people are named Sara?
- 437,441 babies have been named Sara in the US since 1880. We estimate about 357,186 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 40.
- Where is Sara most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sara was most common in New Jersey, at 4.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.