Sable
Sable was given to 64 girls in 2025, #2,717 among girls’ names; 1,718 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Sable and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 18 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sable by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sable?
#2,717 among girls’ names, 2025
Sable rose from #7,543 in 2015 to #2,717 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 39.8 per million.
181 babies in 1986, the peak
Sable peaked in 1986, when 181 girls were given it, #902 among girls’ names. The 70 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,717 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,000 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,227 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,880 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,584 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,459 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,879 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,750 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,001 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,154 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,543 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,992 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,680 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,531 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,026 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,328 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,988 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,876 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,337 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,624 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,756 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,924 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,823 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,656 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,203 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,218 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,215 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,354 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,801 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,270 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,080 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,032 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,446 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,903 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,018 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 156 | #1,081 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,527 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,233 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 181 | #902 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,961 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,265 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,592 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sable a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sable has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sable: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sable, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,718 Americans ever recorded as Sable. The median Sable alive today is 31 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,376 people named Sable (1,335 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 871 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
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 Sable born?
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 Sable 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,826 babies since 1880, Sable is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 70 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 Sable
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 Sable and names like it
- Compare Sable and SabaliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSable peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sable since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Sable.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sable alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.