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    The surname Sabb

    A surname, carried by 1,021 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S100

    Sabb: #24,499 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sabb #24,499, 1,021 people Sabb: #24,499 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sabb #24,499, 1,021 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sabb is more common than 84.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,021 people named Sabb in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 302,395 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,016.

    #24,499
    rank among US surnames
    1,021
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #23,350)

    Who is named Sabb

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    89% of people named Sabb identified as Black (not Hispanic), 6.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 89%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.7%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sabb

    Sabb has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sabb?
    1,021 people in the United States had the surname Sabb in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,395 Americans. It ranked 24,499th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sabb?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Sabb identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 6.7% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sabb getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,016 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,021 in 2010, up 0.5%.