In 2025, 8 US girls were named Sabra, making it the 11,739th most common girls’ name of the year, up 230 places from #11,969 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Sabra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #657, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 155, in 1961. For comparison, it was #12,798 in 2015 and #1,316 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sabra in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 4,960 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 879 babies named Sabra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 73 US girls were named Sabra; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Sabrah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.