Sabah
Sabah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,934 among girls’ names; 529 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sabah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sabah?
#12,934 among girls’ names, 2025
Sabah fell from #11,667 in 2015 to #12,934 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 4.4 per million.
22 babies in 1996, the peak
Sabah peaked in 1996, when 22 girls were given it, #4,700 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,934 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,947 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,000 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,985 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,229 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,934 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,329 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,697 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,453 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,784 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,667 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,288 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,503 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,099 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,029 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,129 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,532 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,086 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,465 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,462 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,986 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,322 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,152 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,740 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,946 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,155 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,853 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,637 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,815 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,700 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,414 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,918 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,957 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,935 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,507 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,065 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,855 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,008 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,564 | 4.6 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,133 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,280 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,082 | 8.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,742 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,256 | 5.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,882 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,780 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,131 | 6.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,937 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sabah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sabah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sabah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sabah, and how old are they?
An estimated 519 Americans named Sabah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,487 people named Sabah (1,715 women and girls, 772 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 481 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,531 babies since 1880, Sabah is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 54 babies (13%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sabah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sabah and names like it
- Compare Sabah and SabaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSabah peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sabah since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Sabah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sabah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.