Meaning not yet researched.
Saba: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,410 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,410 in 1986; #4,967 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Saba in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,967 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #2,410.
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Saba: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,410 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 51 (2001).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Saba, making it the 4,967th most common girls’ name of the year, down 211 places from #4,756 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 29 girls named Saba in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,410, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 51, in 2001. For comparison, it was #5,099 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Saba, making it the 11,746th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #7,150, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8, in 2009. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saba in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 8 babies. In all, 1,681 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 437 babies named Saba.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 275 US girls were named Saba; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Sabah, Sava and Sahiba are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Georgian, Italian, Polish and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sabah (529), Sava (222), Sahiba (158), Zaiba (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Saba in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,967 | 6 | #11,746 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,521 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,361 | 6 | #12,055 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,712 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,462 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,372 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,439 | 7 | #10,539 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,469 | 6 | #11,950 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,099 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,602 | 5 | #13,688 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,209 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,332 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,507 | 8 | #9,703 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,115 | 7 | #10,811 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,920 | 8 | #9,601 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,453 | 6 | #11,201 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,188 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,585 | — | — |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,615 | 8 | #7,150 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,290 | 6 | #8,814 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,533 | 5 | #9,973 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,613 | 5 | #9,352 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,420 | 6 | #7,931 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,960 | 5 | #7,918 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,697 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,672 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,748 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,429 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,269 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,186 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,243 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).