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Female Name
Usage
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
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
See also
For male forms see Saras and Saron
Male
Saruson
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Söruson
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Female
Sarudóttir
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Sörudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see SARA (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Sara
|
Genitive: |
Saras
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Sara
|
Accusative: |
Saru
|
Dative: |
Saru
|
Genitive: |
Saru
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Sara
|
Genitive: |
Saran
|
Partitive: |
Saraa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Sara
|
Accusative: |
Söru
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Dative: |
Söru
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Genitive: |
Söru
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Sara
|
Genitive: |
Saras
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Sara
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Genitive: |
Saras
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Name Days
Denmark
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16 May
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Finland
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19 July
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Norway
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16 May
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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19 July
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Sweden
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19 July
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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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[14] |
|
44674 |
67412 |
44668 |
67398 |
6 |
14 |
Denmark[15] |
|
12617 |
n.a. |
12615 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Finland[16] |
|
n.a. |
16285 |
n.a. |
16280 |
n.a. |
5 |
Iceland[17] |
|
1247 |
1679 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[18] |
|
241 |
793 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [14][15][19][16]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [20]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Sara (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables