Sara

plural Saras

1. A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.

   Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:11

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   Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c. At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?

   1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 151

   The oldest Weaver girls, Sara, 16, and Rachel, 10, were unharmed, as was their infant sister, Elisheba, whom Vicki had been holding when a sniper’s bullet crashed into her head.

   1996 May 18, Howard Rosenberg, “‘Ruby Ridge’: A Tragedy or an Inevitable End?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2025

   'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud. 'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?' 'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'

   2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 175

   “It was absolutely terrible,” [Richard] Spencer told CNN’s Sara Ganim by phone hours after the assault. “I’ve certain never had this happen before – a sucker punch in broad daylight.”

   2017 January 21, Paul P. Murphy, “White nationalist Richard Spencer punched during interview”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023