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Sable: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #902 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #902 in 1986; #2,717 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Sable in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,717 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #902.
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Sable: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #902 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 181 (1986).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Sable, making it the 2,717th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,286 places from #5,003 in 2024. That is 37 more than the 27 girls named Sable in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #902, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 181. For comparison, it was #7,546 in 2015 and #5,965 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sable in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 5 babies. In all, 1,718 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 560 babies named Sable.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 289 US girls were named Sable; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sable ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,428 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,428 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,705 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,717 | 6 | #11,749 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,003 | 5 | #13,867 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,230 | 5 | #13,801 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,588 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,463 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,880 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,754 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,005 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,156 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,995 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,684 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,534 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,034 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,333 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,992 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,880 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,341 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,628 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,761 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,928 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,828 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,661 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1989 | 156 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1986 | 181 | #902 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,918 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,965 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,918 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,593 | — | — |
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).