# Sabra (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sabra/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “prickly pear cactus”, “cactus” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,960 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 4,960 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew צַבָּר (tsabár, “prickly pear cactus”), from Arabic صَبَّار (ṣabbār, “cactus”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19 | 6,857 |
| 2011 | 27 | 5,182 |
| 2012 | 23 | 5,859 |
| 2013 | 25 | 5,454 |
| 2014 | 15 | 7,996 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12,798 |
| 2016 | 6 | 15,890 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9,250 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,556 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,335 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,805 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,944 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10,191 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11,969 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,739 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |

## In other languages

- Finnish: sabra
- Hebrew: צַבָּר, סַבְּרֶה
- Polish: sabra
- Turkish: sabra

## 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.