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Sabas

Boys' name

Old man, grandfather

Sabas has been given to 739 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Sabas, 2024

1 in 669,000

Sabas 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sabas: meaning, origin, and history

Old man, grandfather

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sabas means

Sabas means “old man, grandfather”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sabas is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsa.βas/ for Sabas.

Origin, language, and formation

Sabas is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sebastinas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Sabas is pronounced [²ˈsɑːbɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 739 boys were recorded with the name Sabas between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,808 in 1930.

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 Sabas?

Sabas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sabas 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sabas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sabass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabas was born before 1974 — so the typical Sabas is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
522
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Sabas 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (18)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,808
1930

Spellings of Sabas

Sabas is not the most common spelling — Silas is, with 59.1% against Sabas's 0.58%.

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.

Where Sabas is used

Across 1910–2025, Sabas was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 95,330 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sabas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sabas around the world

Where Sabas 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
    1900–1966
    #1,513
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sabas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,808
1930
Peak year
1930
18 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
739
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sabas

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

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Sibling names for Sabas

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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