Sarah

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling (German, English, French) of Sara [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Sara

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Söruhson Iceland

Female

Söruhdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sarah
Genitive: Sarahs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sarah
Genitive: Sarahin
Partitive: Sarahia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sarah
Accusative: Söruh
Dative: Söruh
Genitive: Söruh
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sarah
Genitive: Sarahs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sarah
Genitive: Sarahs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 260 people were named Sarah (percentage of first or only given name: 81 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[11]
6801 8732 6799 8729 2 3
Denmark Denmark[12]
11109
n.a.
11109
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
2105
n.a.
2105 0 0
Iceland Iceland[14]
59 68
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
21 32
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
4175
n.a.
4175
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sarah (f) Sources: [11][12][16][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Sarah (f) Sources: [17]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Sarah (f)


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  7. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. details see Name Statistic tables