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Sahra

#7,435 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Sarah

Sahra has been given to 874 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #7,435 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Sahra, 2025

1 in 221,000

Sahra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sahra: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sarah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sahra means

Sahra is a variant of Sarah.

Origin, language, and formation

Sahra is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sarah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 874 girls were recorded with the name Sahra between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,736 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,887 in 2020 to #7,435 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,680 in 2015 to #7,435 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 Sahra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,435
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sahra 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sahra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sahras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sahra was born before 2004 — so the typical Sahra is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
874
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (263).

Is Sahra 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
+453
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+452
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−755
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2007 (35)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,736
1986

Spellings of Sahra

Sahra is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 27.3% against Sahra's 0.02%.

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 Sahra is used

Across 1910–2025, Sahra was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 335,542 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 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. Sahra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sahra around the world

Where Sahra 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1902–2025
    #2,591
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2017
    #554
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Sahra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,435
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 452
Best rank ever
#3,736
1986
Peak year
2007
35 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
874
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Sahra

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

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Sibling names for Sahra

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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