The baby name Sarsa is a Girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SAR-sah.
The baby name Sarsa is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SAR-sah.
Sarsa is in Origin.
Sarsa is best treated as a modern name of uncertain linguistic origin. The spelling is not a standard Arabic word for dew, nor is it the normal Spanish word salsa; in Sanskrit, the nearer forms are saras, lake or pond, and sarasa, watery, juicy, or flowing, from the Indo-Aryan root √sṛ, to flow. Those forms may explain some later interpretations, but Sarsa itself is not an early Sanskrit citation.
As a given name, Sarsa appears only sporadically in contemporary records and lacks a continuous medieval, religious, or literary tradition under this exact spelling. Small modern datasets tend to place it on girls, including isolated Australian registrations, but the sample is too thin for a stable regional profile. Comparable-looking names include Saras and Sarasā in South Asian contexts, while Salsa and Zarza are unrelated Spanish words rather than variants.
Sarsa is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Sarsa appears only 31 times in total — found in 18 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.
| Sarsa Dengel Sarsa Dengel, also known as Sarsa the Great, is best known for being Emperor of Ethiopia in the late 1500s and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Malak Sagad I, and he ruled until his death in 1597. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TW | Girls | 0 | #289 | 1 | 8,139 |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #424 | 1 | 15,987 |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #518 | 1 | 9,861 |
| IQ | Girls | 0 | #525 | 1 | 11,303 |
| RU | Boys | 0 | #526 | 1 | 12,621 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #631 | 2 | 18,916 |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #652 | 3 | 13,121 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #742 | 2 | 18,093 |
| SY | 0 | #766 | 2 | 11,684 | |
| BR | Boys | 0 | #785 | 1 | 12,213 |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #806 | 1 | 18,755 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #918 | 1 | 17,948 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #925 | 1 | 15,035 |
| EG | Girls | 0 | #1,009 | 1 | 14,742 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,012 | 3 | 25,931 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #1,039 | 1 | 16,750 |
| MY | Girls | 0 | #1,072 | 1 | 24,821 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,143 | 1 | 22,615 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,182 | 1 | 25,439 |
| MA | 0 | #1,199 | 1 | 20,986 | |
| DZ | 0 | #1,233 | 2 | 20,130 | |
| TR | 0 | #1,254 | 1 | 19,440 | |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,691 | 1 | 28,008 |
Sarsa is popular in 18 countries — most recent births per country:
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