How to write “Sarah or Sara” in Korean

사라 sa-ra Listen to 사라, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 사라야 sa-ra-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 사라 씨 sa-ra-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Sarah

The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 세라; most Koreans write 사라.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Sarah Jessica Parker 사라 (sometimes 세라); Sarah Paulson 사라 (sometimes 세라); Sarah Palin 세라 (sometimes 사라).

Well-known people named Sarah or Sara, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Sarah Bernhardt — 사라 베르나르
• Sara Errani — 사라 에라니
• Sarah Siddons — 사라 시돈스
• Sarah Sjöström — 사라 셰스트룀

850,288 babies were named Sarah in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 29th most common name.

Block by block

• 사 = ㅅ + ㅏ · 4 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes

  Also in 사: Samantha 사만다 · Samuel 사무엘 · Alyssa 얼리사

• 라 = ㄹ + ㅏ · 5 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes

  Also in 라: Nicholas 니콜라스 · Ryan 라이언 · Isabella 이저벨라

사라 takes 9 strokes in all.

More names: Justin 저스틴 · Nathan 네이선 · Robert 로버트 · Gabriel 가브리엘 · Elijah 일라이저

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