girls:
513 births since 1960
#5203 (9th percentile)
boys:
73 births since 1994
#4513 (2nd percentile)
overall:
586 births since 1960
#7153 (8th percentile)
The name Sabre is the #7,153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 586 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,203 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 513 births since 1960. For boys, it ranks #4,513 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 73 births since 1994.
Sabre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for girls and 1994 for boys). Birth data for Sabre is available in 52 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (47 years for girls and 12 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 Sabre has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Sabre were girls.
For girls, Sabre reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #822) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Sabre ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 19.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sabre reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #803) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sabre".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sabre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Sabre is pronounced as SAY-ber, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is saybr, at 30.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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