girls:
1.5k births since 1970
#4217 (26th percentile)
boys:
88 births since 1987
#4498 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1970
#6128 (21st percentile)
The name Saba is the #6,128 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,618 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 20.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,217 (26.2% percentile) for all time with 1,530 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,498 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 1987.
Saba first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Saba is available in 53 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (53 years for girls and 14 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Saba has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Saba reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #800) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Saba ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 51.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Saba reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #789) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saba".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Saba. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Saba is pronounced as SAH-buh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SUH-buh, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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