Sabre
Sabre was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,606 among girls’ names; 593 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sabre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sabre?
#14,606 among girls’ names, 2025
Sabre entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,606 in 2025.
34 babies in 1994, the peak
Sabre peaked in 1994, when 34 babies were given it (28 girls, #3,870 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,606 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,859 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,986 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,579 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,801 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,331 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,681 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #10,406 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,685 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,328 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #13,830 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #14,099 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,438 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,678 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,225 | 6 | #11,775 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,514 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,949 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,360 | 7 | #9,192 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,905 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,495 | 7 | #8,950 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,133 | 7 | #8,539 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,752 | 5 | #10,981 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,363 | 6 | #9,045 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,017 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,976 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,870 | 6 | #8,596 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,624 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,936 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,135 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,066 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,634 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,579 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,214 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,962 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,761 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,334 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,974 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,257 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,672 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,449 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,234 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,858 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,185 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,021 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,847 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,933 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,697 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,705 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,304 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,205 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,484 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,482 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,121 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sabre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 593 Americans recorded as Sabre, 88% are girls and 12% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sabre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sabre, and how old are they?
An estimated 573 Americans named Sabre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 24 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 609 people named Sabre (460 women and girls, 149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 549 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,155 babies since 1880, Sabre is the third most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 21 babies (29%), again the third 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 Sabre
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Alix | 4,573 |
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 Sabre and names like it
- Compare Sabre and SabraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSabre peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Sabre.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sabre alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.