# Saba (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/saba/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,681 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 94 / 1,587 (94% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 961, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 5,332 |
| 2012 | 32 | 4,585 |
| 2013 | 21 | 6,209 |
| 2014 | 24 | 5,602 |
| 2015 | 27 | 5,099 |
| 2016 | 35 | 4,226 |
| 2017 | 32 | 4,469 |
| 2018 | 32 | 4,439 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,372 |
| 2020 | 23 | 5,462 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,712 |
| 2022 | 33 | 4,361 |
| 2023 | 23 | 5,521 |
| 2024 | 29 | 4,756 |
| 2025 | 27 | 4,967 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | 7,918 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,931 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,352 |
| 1994 | 5 | 9,973 |
| 1996 | 6 | 8,814 |
| 1997 | 8 | 7,150 |
| 2005 | 6 | 11,201 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,601 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,811 |
| 2009 | 8 | 9,703 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,688 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,950 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,539 |
| 2022 | 6 | 12,055 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,746 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 33 | 1,058 |
| 2013 | 36 | 999 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,411 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,452 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,416 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,911 |
| 2018 | 19 | 1,586 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,634 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,352 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,628 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,575 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,639 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |

## People named Saba

- Saba, Danish singer
- Saba Lobzhanidze, Georgian association football player
- Saba Mahmood, American anthropologist, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Saba Goglichidze, Georgian association football player (born 2004)
- Saba Kidane, Eritrean journalist, poet and political ativist
- Saba Khvadagiani, Georgian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.