girls:
21 births since 1995
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
929 births since 1976
#3662 (20th percentile)
overall:
950 births since 1976
#6789 (12th percentile)
The name Sabian is the #6,789 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 950 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 12.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,662 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 929 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1995.
Sabian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1995 for girls). Birth data for Sabian is available in 37 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 4 years for girls). 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 Sabian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Sabian reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #717) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 46 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sabian ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sabian reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sabian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sabian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.8% confident that Sabian is pronounced as SAY-bee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-BEE-uhn, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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