Sara
Slavic at root, with "princess" attached later as a reading rather than grown from the root itself. Given only to girls, it sits in Poland's top few hundred names today and turns up more often each year, not less.
Sara Pronunciation
Sara is pronounced SAH-rah (/ˈsara/).
What Sara means
Where Sara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sara arrives in Polish life with a Slavic origin and a short gloss written beside it: princess, or in Polish, księżniczka. That title fits the name better as a later reading than as a literal root. The sense of "princess" settled onto Sara over time. Origin is one matter. Meaning is another.
On the Polish calendar the name keeps its imieniny more than once, with July 13 the date most families mark and October 9 close behind. A girl named Sara can therefore choose her day. In a school register her name sits plainly among the rest, four letters, easy to call out at morning roll.
The name travels light, without a string of diminutives or variants trailing after it. What stays constant is the pair the record holds: a Slavic origin and the sense of księżniczka behind it.
When Sara celebrates name day
Sara appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 13 July.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Sara
1 in 678 women in Poland is named Sara. 33,242 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #233 among female names.
Sara's popularity over time
867 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #77 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2005.
Where Sara is most popular
Sara is most popular in Subcarpathian, 35% above the national average (491 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+32%) and Pomeranian (+17%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian, 22% and 20% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian491 girls born+35%
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Opole183 girls born+32%
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Pomeranian518 girls born+17%
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Lesser Poland772 girls born+13%
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West Pomeranian274 girls born+8%
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Lower Silesian505 girls born+7%
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Silesian709 girls born+3%
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Lubusz153 girls born+2%
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Masovian1,018 girls born−5%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian301 girls born−9%
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Lublin269 girls born−13%
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Łódź329 girls born−14%
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Świętokrzyskie142 girls born−15%
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Warmian-Masurian173 girls born−20%
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Greater Poland520 girls born−20%
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Podlaskie155 girls born−22%
Sara as a middle name
Sara is a first name for 33,242 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9,660, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 113th, between Honorata (9,820) and Brygida (9,311).
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#111 Kornelia9,850
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#112 Honorata9,820
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#113 Sara9,660
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#114 Brygida9,311
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#115 Milena9,194