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Saban

#11,743 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Saban has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #11,743 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Saban, 2025

1 in 553,000

Saban over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saban: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saban means

Saban is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saban is used in Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 151 boys were recorded with the name Saban between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2017; its best national rank was #7,018 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,396 in 2020 to #11,743 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saban?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,743
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saban sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saban. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sabans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saban was born before 2017 — so the typical Saban is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Saban rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,561
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,347
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2017 (12)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,018
2017

Spellings of Saban

Saban is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 42.8% against Saban's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Saban around the world

Where Saban ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1977–2016
    #5,675
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saban by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,743
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,347
Best rank ever
#7,018
2017
Peak year
2017
12 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
151
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Saban

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saban

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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