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Sabra

#11,735 in 2025Girls' name

Prickly pear cactus

Sabra has been given to 4,960 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,735 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Sabra, 2025

1 in 414,000

Sabra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sabra: meaning, origin, and history

Prickly pear cactus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sabra means

Sabra means “prickly pear cactus”, associated with tsabár.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hebrew צַבָּר (tsabár, “prickly pear cactus”), from Arabic صَبَّار (ṣabbār, “cactus”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Sabra (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Sabra is used in English.

Sabra comes through Hebrew צַבָּר and Arabic صَبَّار.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,960 girls were recorded with the name Sabra between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 1961; its best national rank was #657 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,800 in 2020 to #11,735 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,793 in 2015 to #11,735 in 2025.

How common is Sabra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,735
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sabra 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sabra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sabras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabra was born before 1967 — so the typical Sabra is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
17.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,725
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (879).

Is Sabra 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
+229
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,065
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,058
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.2%
Peak was 1961 (155)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#657
1887

Spellings of Sabra

Sabra is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 23.4% against Sabra's 0.11%.

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 Sabra is used

Across 1910–2025, Sabra was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 97,278 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 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. Sabra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sabra around the world

Where Sabra 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
    2001–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • France
    1967–2022
    #7,745
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sabra

People whose public names include Sabra, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sabra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,735
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,065
Best rank ever
#657
1887
Peak year
1961
155 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,960
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Sabra

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

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Names with a curve like Sabra

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sabra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sabra

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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