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Sabella

#4,441 in 2025Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Isabella

Sabella has been given to 1,331 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,441 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Sabella, 2025

1 in 104,000

Sabella over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sabella: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Isabella

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sabella means

Sabella belongs to the name family reached through Sabella → Isabella → Isabel. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sabella is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isabella and Isabel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,331 girls were recorded with the name Sabella between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,276 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,465 in 2020 to #4,441 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,550 in 2015 to #4,441 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 Sabella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,441
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sabella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sabella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sabellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabella was born before 2015 — so the typical Sabella is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,331
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (703).

Is Sabella 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
−696
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,976
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,891
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.6%
Peak was 2016 (83)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,276
2013

Spellings of Sabella

Sabella is not the most common spelling — Isabella is, with 44.2% against Sabella's 0.14%.

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 Sabella is used

Across 2016–2025, Sabella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 41,543 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Sabella around the world

Where Sabella 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2011–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2003–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sabella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,441
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,976
Best rank ever
#2,276
2013
Peak year
2016
83 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,331
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Sabella

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

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Sibling names for Sabella

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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