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Sarah

A Hebrew name meaning "princess". In Poland it stays rare: most people here have never met a Sarah, and the handful born each year keeps it that way.

Sarah Pronunciation

Sarah is pronounced SAH-rahkh (/ˈsarax/).

Alive in 2025
2,395
Newborns 2025
12
National rank
#652

What Sarah means

Where Sarah comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Sarah comes from Hebrew, and it means princess. In the book of Genesis, Abraham's wife is called Sarai before she is renamed Sarah, and Scripture ties the new name to a promise that kings will descend from her. So the sense of rank was there from the start.

English speakers took the name up after the Reformation, when Puritan families favoured Hebrew names drawn from the Old Testament. From England it travelled with settlers and later ranked among the most common names given to girls in the English-speaking world. Its spelling held firm.

In a Polish class register today, a Sara sits among the Zuzannas and Julias, her name written without the final h. The form is foreign and fully at home. Whatever else it gathers, the word underneath still means princess.

How many people are named Sarah

1 in 9421 women in Poland is named Sarah. 2,395 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #652 among female names.

People with the name Sarah 2019 → 2025
2,395 +608 since 2019
2020 1,852 +65
2021 1,937 +85
2022 2,050 +113
2023 2,173 +123
2024 2,273 +100
2025 2,395 +122

Sarah's popularity over time

12 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #660 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #652 name among living women, even as it slips to #660 among newborns.

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12 newborns with the name Sarah in 2025
national rank #660 that year

Where Sarah is most popular

Sarah is most popular in Opole, 207% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+110%) and Silesian (+102%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Pomeranian, 55% and 52% below average respectively.

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Sarah as a middle name

Sarah is a first name for 2,395 women in Poland and a middle name for another 585, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 299th, between Aurora (587) and Veronica (584).

As a first name
2,395
As a middle name
585
first name 80% middle name 20%
Middle-name ranking women

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