Sabella
Sabella was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,441 among girls’ names; 1,331 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Sabella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sabella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sabella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sabella is “a female given name, diminutive of Isabella”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sabella?
#4,441 among girls’ names, 2025
Sabella fell from #2,550 in 2015 to #4,441 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 19.9 per million.
83 babies in 2016, the peak
Sabella peaked in 2016, when 83 girls were given it, #2,304 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,441 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,745 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,882 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,781 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,058 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,465 | 43.9 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,647 | 39.3 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,580 | 40.0 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,773 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,304 | 46.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,550 | 39.8 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,731 | 35.8 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,276 | 46.7 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,512 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,792 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,584 | 39.9 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,239 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,842 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,463 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,779 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,484 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,146 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,503 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,741 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,904 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,056 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,060 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,609 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,227 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,881 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,992 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,551 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,213 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,321 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sabella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sabella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sabella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sabella, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,331 Americans ever recorded as Sabella. The median Sabella alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 924 people named Sabella (917 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 43 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 468 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 810 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sabella born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,224 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sabella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,382 babies since 1880, Sabella is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 32 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Sabella
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 Sabella and names like it
- Compare Sabella and SabelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSabella peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sabella since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Sabella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sabella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.