Sarah Factsheet

Meaning
Hebrew - 'princess; lady'

England and Wales statistics
Anglo-Saxon record: no entries
13th century: no entries (16 entries, #16 for Sarra)
Earliest birth record: Sarah Copeman (b. 1508)
1550-1690: High: #4 (1660-90); Low: no entries (1550-60); rise over period
1840-1905: High #2 (1840); Low: #22 (1900-5); gradual decline over period
1914-1994: High #1 (1974-84): Low #85 (1944); decline, sharp rise and then small decline
2004: #56
2008: #72
2011: #90 (663 births)

US statistics
1880-2011: High: #3 (1993); Low: #119 (1959); slow fall, quick rise, gradual decline
2011: #39 (5472 births)