Saara

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saara is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sarah; wife of Ibrāhīm in Islamic tradition.

rarermore common
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 29◐
  • KWKuwait1 in 64
  • ILIsrael1 in 118

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.7M ●

across 11 countries

#132 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
592 ●

12M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 147 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

SarahLatin · English●8.1M records
שרהHebrew · Hebrew●681K records
ЗараCyrillic · Russian●28K records
세라Hangul · Korean●8.8K records
ᲡარაGeorgian · Georgian●2.4K records
ሳራEthiopic · Amharic●802 records
ซาร่าThai · Thai●544 records
ՍառաArmenian · Armenian●5 records
সারাহBengali · Bangla●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sara in SA Saudi Arabia, BR Brazil, IT Italy and 11 more, Sarah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 8 more, שרה in IL Israel, PL Poland and Saera in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sarah; wife of Ibrāhīm in Islamic tradition.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Saara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#25994,721785K rec.—666Sarah317
US United States#44873,1998.4M rec.1 in 381873KSarah592
SA Saudi Arabia#6772,24711K rec.——Sara174
AU Australia#18674,679447K rec.—393Sarah320
IL Israel#11574,371591K rec.—589שרה116
BR Brazil#895304,917△1.8K rec.1 in 694305KSara9
CA Canada#28286,986203K rec.—48Sarah267
DE Germany#90274,417250K rec.—2Sarah291
IT Italy#25203,81470K rec.—43Sara198
EG Egypt#10188,77259K rec.—listedSara165
ES Spain—179,954△60K rec.1 in 278180KSara181
FR France—174,005△4.6K rec.1 in 390174KSaera18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish76K79%
  • Portuguese9.8K10%
  • English3.3K3%
  • Spanish1.8K2%
  • Estonian7321%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish76,43679%
Portuguese9,80510%
English3,3153%
Spanish1,8262%
Estonian7321%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Saara is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name12K records spelled Saara13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Finland

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Saarä, Säärä, Saará, Sáára, Sããrã

  • English given name4.9K records spelled Saara13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Brazil, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Saãra

  • French given name503 records spelled Saara5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Sàara, Saàra, Sààrà

  • Turkish given name195 records spelled Saara3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Finland, Syria

    Also written Şaara

  • Polish given name76 records spelled Saara3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Finland

    Also written Şaar, Saar

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Saara is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, Sarah (biblical character).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, third-person singular/plural past indicative of saart

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, Saar (a Moselle, flowing through France and Germany)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, Sahara (desert in Africa)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

051015201980199020002010202020 · 2017

Show as table
Saara in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1973–2025
Yearrecords
19735
19815
19845
19856
19876
19889
19908
19917
19927
19936
19956
19966
19976
19986
19995
20016
20029
200310
20047
20057
200615
200710
200813
200911
20109
201112
201210
201314
201418
201512
201616
201720
201816
201920
202014
202111
20229
202311
20246
202513

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Saara Pakkasvirta, b. 1938Seija Simola, b. 1944Saara Kuugongelwa, b. 1967Saara Kotkaniemi, b. 1986Saara Kivenmäki, b. 1986Saara Aalto, b. 1987Saara Pius, b. 1990Saara Nüganen, b. 1992Saara Geitel, b. 1998Saara Chaudry, b. 2004

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Saara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—21K#237
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—12K—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—799#5,342
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—771#10,874
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022676—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—673#10,856
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2020646—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—585#259
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010579—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020500#20,595
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—434#3,059
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000426—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 188 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saara?
We estimate roughly 1.7 million people bear Saara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Saara have the most bearers?
Saara is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled sarah.
How common is Saara compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Saara is the 25th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Saara a male or female name?
Saara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Saara mean?
Recorded meaning: Sarah; wife of Ibrāhīm in Islamic tradition.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saara

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saara” — the 25th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Saara parses inside a full name →