Given name & surname
Sarra
“princess”
Sarra is a variant of Sarah. Sarah means “princess” in Hebrew.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sarra is a variant of Sarah. Sarah means “princess” in Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sarra is a variant of Sarah. Sarah comes from Hebrew biblical tradition and is the name given to Abraham’s wife in Genesis.
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How it developed
Sarra is a variant of Sarah. The shared background comes through Sarah: In the biblical account, Sarai is renamed Sarah as part of a blessing. Later Irish and Scottish uses sometimes adopted Sarah in place of local Gaelic names, a separate practice from its Hebrew origin.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Sarra is a variant of Sarah. The history of Sarah gives this family its wider story. Sarah is remembered in Genesis as Abraham’s wife and Isaac’s mother. Sarah’s later local adaptations included use for Sorcha in Ireland and Mor in Scotland, showing how an established biblical name could serve different naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Sarra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 668
- 0 boys · 668 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,648 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,648 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 29 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,141 as a first name in 2020; 516 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sarra’s family of names
Sarra has a related form in Sarah. In Russian usage, Sarra is a transliteration of Сарра. In Coptic usage, Sarra is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ⲥⲁⲣⲣⲁ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sarra has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sarra
- Sara ZaafaraniTunisian engineer, senior civil servant and politician (born 1963)
- Sarra BesbesTunisian fencerborn 1989
- Sarra Copia SullamVenetian poet1588–1641
- Sarra BelhocineAlgerian volleyball playerborn 1994
- Sarra LebedevaRussian artist (1892-1967)
- Sarra GuezguezTunisian sailorborn 2005
- Sarra LajnefTunisian swimmerborn 1989
- Sarra RavichSoviet revolutionary (1879–1957)
- Sarra BaranovaRussian Chuvash poet, translator (1930-2014)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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