Sahra
Sahra was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,435 among girls’ names; 874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sahra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sahra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sahra is “a female given name, variant of Sarah”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sahra?
#7,435 among girls’ names, 2025
Sahra fell from #6,680 in 2015 to #7,435 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 9.3 per million.
35 babies in 2007, the peak
Sahra peaked in 2007, when 35 girls were given it, #4,362 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,435 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,888 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,188 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,599 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,914 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,887 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,066 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,195 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,564 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,366 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,680 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,400 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,974 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,024 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,541 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,079 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,055 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,252 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,362 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,780 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,348 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,341 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,202 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,632 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,972 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,275 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,173 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,018 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,970 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,716 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,172 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,803 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,178 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,413 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,879 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,952 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,984 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,180 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,858 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,736 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,286 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,917 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,598 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,047 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,506 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,977 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,583 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,066 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,363 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,930 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,866 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sahra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sahra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sahra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sahra, and how old are they?
An estimated 860 Americans named Sahra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,752 people named Sahra (1,747 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 774 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,577,200 babies since 1880, Sahra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 5,258 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sahra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sahra and names like it
- Compare Sahra and SarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSahra peaked in 2007.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sahra since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Sahra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sahra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.