Sabbath
#10,479 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sabbath has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #10,479 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.
Babies named Sabbath, 2025
1 in 474,000
Sabbath over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sabbath over time
In 2025, Sabbath went to 42% girls and 58% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sabbath?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,479
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sabbath sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sabbath. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sabbaths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabbath was born before 2019 — so the typical Sabbath is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 27
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Sabbath 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 70.0%
- Peak was 2019 (10)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Sabbath by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Sabbath
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sabbath
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.