Nabor — boys' name
384 babies named Nabor in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Nabor was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Nabor in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nabor
The Social Security Administration has registered 384 babies named Nabor between 1917 and 2013, spanning 97 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nabor currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nabor performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 88 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Nabor shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Nabor in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nabor in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 384 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nabor at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nabor popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1917
- Peak year (1990)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 97 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
384 total births across 97 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 17 births in a single year.
Nabor by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 88 births that decade — 23% of Nabor's all-time total
Nabor decade highlights
- Peak decade 88 births
- Runner-up 79 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Nabor's strongest decade
88 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Nabor by state
Where Nabor concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 31 | 8.1% |
| #2 | California | | 22 | 5.7% |
| #3 | New Mexico | | 5 | 1.3% |
31 of 384 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 8.1% of nationwide
- California 5.7% of nationwide
- New Mexico 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 8.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.