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How popular is the name Sabah?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sabahs are alive today.
Sabah (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 4201st in 2025 and given to 5 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2001, when 93 babies were given the name, the 359th most popular that year. It has declined since 2001; the 2025 figure is roughly 5% of its peak. Sabah is one spelling of a name also recorded as Saba; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Sabah you are most likely to meet is around 25 years old. Half of all Sabahs born in England and Wales are between 19 and 31, and there are at least 2,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Sabah - on average, only one in every 113 such rooms contains a Sabah.
How many babies are named Sabah each year?
Includes all spellings: Sabah, Saba. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Sabah spelling rank?
Where does the Saba spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sabah most popular?
Sabah peaked in 2001, when 141 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Sabah?
At least 2,800 people named Sabah in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sabah?
Most living Sabahs are between 19 and 31; the most common age is about 25.
Is Sabah becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2001 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.