Nicknames for Sarah
37 ideas for Sarah — the short forms people actually use, plus cute, funny and gamer versions. Copy any of them in one click.
- Sar the everyday clip, vowel drawn out
- Sadie old family form, now a name itself
- Sally from a centuries-old r-to-l shift
- Sara the h-less spelling used worldwide
- Sass teasing clip for the sharp-tongued
- Sarie warm family and South African form
- Sal clipped again from Sally
- Sar-Bear the standard American rhyming pet name
- Sarge sounds like Sar, lands like a rank
- Sez how British friends shorten it
- Shazza Australian slang, affectionate and blunt
- Sazza the other Australian version
- Sarita Spanish affectionate form
- Sári how Hungary shortens Sarah
- Sorcha the Irish name Sarah long stood for
- Sarai her name in Genesis before the change
- Saretta Italian diminutive of Sara
- Saara the Finnish spelling
- Sadie-Mae Southern double name, affectionate
- Sarah-Jane the classic compound, often said whole
- SJ initials, if the compound is used
- Say-Say toddler doubling that sometimes sticks
- Sar-Sar sibling version of the clip
- Sadie Bug family pet name for a small Sarah
- Sassy only if the reputation fits
- Ess just the initial, said aloud
- Sarah Belle Southern compound, warm
- Sar-Lo used where Sarah-Louise is the full name
- Sary Sarah with the ending people add when they like you.
- Saru Sarah with the ending people add when they like you.
- Sa-sa The opening sound of Sarah, doubled.
- Swift Sarah Shares the "S" sound with Sarah.
- Snappy Sarah Shares the "S" sound with Sarah.
- Steady Sarah Shares the "S" sound with Sarah.
- Sári The Hungarian form of Sarah.
- Saro Sarah with the ending people add when they like you.
- Sharp Sarah Shares the "S" sound with Sarah.
About the name Sarah.
Hebrew scripture gives Sarah the plainest possible meaning: princess, or noblewoman. She is Abraham's wife, renamed from Sarai partway through Genesis, and the name has travelled through Jewish, Christian and Muslim naming traditions ever since without needing a rebrand. In the United States it was quietly common in the 1950s, surged through the 1970s, then sat near the top ten for most of the 1980s, which is why a Sarah you meet is statistically likely to be in her thirties or forties. The shortenings split two ways. Friends clip it to Sar, which sounds nothing like the full name and everything like a nudge in the ribs. Families reach for Sadie, an old form that has since escaped and become a name of its own.
Sarah reads as competent, grounded and slightly serious, the name of someone who reliably has a pen. It is short enough that nicknames are affectionate rather than necessary. Sass and Sar work as teasing, consonant-heavy clips, while Sadie and Sally soften it considerably and pull the whole thing toward warmth.
Most popular around 1980. Based on US birth records.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Meaning
- princess, noblewoman
- Syllables
- Sar·ah
- Used as
- a girls’ name
Sarah around the world.
These are the real forms Sarah takes in other languages, which often make excellent nicknames in their own right.
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Sara
Spanish
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Sarai
Hebrew
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Sorcha
Irish
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Sári
Hungarian
Famous people called Sarah.
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Sarah Bernhardt
legendary French stage actress
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Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
Questions about the name Sarah
What are the most common nicknames for Sarah? +
Sar is the everyday clip friends use, usually with a drawn-out vowel. Sadie is the traditional family form and now stands alone as a given name. Sally began as a Sarah nickname centuries ago through an r-to-l shift. Sass and Sarie turn up in smaller circles.
Does Sarah really mean princess? +
Yes, and unusually directly. The Hebrew root gives noblewoman or princess, and Genesis stages the meaning as a plot point when Sarai is renamed. Very few common English names carry a gloss that both the text and the etymology agree on this cleanly.
Sarah or Sara, which spelling is correct? +
Both are legitimate. Sarah with the h follows the Hebrew and English tradition, while Sara without it is standard in Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian and Arabic contexts. In American records Sarah has always outnumbered Sara, though the two are usually pronounced identically.
Is Sarah still a common baby name? +
It is falling. After a long run inside the top ten through the 1980s it slid steadily and now sits outside the top hundred. It has not become unusable in the way some names from that decade have, but it no longer signals a newborn.