Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Sara

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of the Hebrew name שָׂרָה (Sarah) = 'princess', 'lady' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

Saara ♀
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Saaru ♀
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Sahra ♀
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Sara ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Sára ♀
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Sâra ♀
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Sárá ♀
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 Sami
Sarah ♀
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Sari ♀
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Sarra ♀
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Sarri ♀
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Sarry ♀ Swedish
Zaara ♀ Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Zahra ♀
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Zara ♀
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Zarah ♀
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See also

For male forms see Saras and Saron

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Saruson Faroe Islands
Söruson Iceland

Female

Sarudóttir Faroe Islands
Sörudóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see SARA (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sara
Genitive: Saras
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Sara
Accusative: Saru
Dative: Saru
Genitive: Saru
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sara
Genitive: Saran
Partitive: Saraa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sara
Accusative: Söru
Dative: Söru
Genitive: Söru
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sara
Genitive: Saras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sara
Genitive: Saras

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

16 May

Finland Finland

19 July

Norway Norway

16 May

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

19 July

Sweden Sweden

19 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • Sara is the name of the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaak. Her name was originally Sarai until God changed it.

Namesakes

  • Sara Lidman (30 December 1923 – 17 June 2004), Swedish author

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 12,831 people were named Sara (percentage of first or only given name: 82 %) [11]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[14]
44674 67412 44668 67398 6 14
Denmark Denmark[15]
12617
n.a.
 12615
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Finland Finland[16]
n.a.
 16285
n.a.
 16280
n.a.
 5
Iceland Iceland[17]
1247 1679
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
241 793
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[19]
10867
n.a.
 10867
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sara (f) Sources: [14][15][19][16]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Sara (f) Sources: [20]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Sara (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Sara (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Sara (f)


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  17. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  20. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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