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Saara

#8,255 in 2025Girls' name

Princess, lady

Saara has been given to 392 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #8,255 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Saara, 2025

1 in 255,000

Saara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saara: meaning, origin, and history

Princess, lady

Danish

What Saara means

Saara means “princess, lady”, associated with śārâ.

Origin, language, and formation

Saara is used in Estonian, Finnish and Greenlandic. Its origins include Danish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Saara is pronounced /ˈsɑːrɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 392 girls were recorded with the name Saara between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2017; its best national rank was #6,144 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,885 in 2020 to #8,255 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,381 in 2015 to #8,255 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,255
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saara was born before 2011 — so the typical Saara is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
392
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Saara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+6,691
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−370
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,126
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.0%
Peak was 2017 (20)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,144
2019

Spellings of Saara

Saara is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 23.1% against Saara's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Saara is used

Across 1910–2025, Saara was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,431,279 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saara around the world

Where Saara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • France
    1987–2021
    #6,953
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 370
Best rank ever
#6,144
2019
Peak year
2017
20 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
392
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Saara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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