Sara
476
Babies in 2024
-20%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 653
+7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sara
Sara is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #97 for girls born in 2024 with 476 babies registered in England & Wales.
Sara reached its peak in 2017, when 653 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #82 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 476 represents 73% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 14,205 girls have been officially registered with the name Sara in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 6,036 girls were registered with the name, starting from 596 in 2014 and ending at 476 in 2024.