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Baby name
Sarah
Girl
Origin of the name
Sarah comes from the Hebrew Sara, “lady, princess,” through Greek and Latin. In the Bible, Sarah is the wife of Abraham.
Classic name
1,098,498births since 1880
1980sgeneration
No. 4rank at its peak, in 1982
Where babies named Sarah are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Sarah is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Sarah is most common in Alaska (1.8 times), New Hampshire (1.7) and Vermont (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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