Sabah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-BAH
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Sabah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “morning”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Sabah mean?
Arabic
“morning”
The Arabic word for morning, as in the greeting sabah al-khair, 'good morning'.
Is Sabah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sabah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sabah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Sabah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 94 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sabah in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Sabah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 17 | #1,813 |
| 2014 | 17 | #1,810 |
| 2013 | 16 | #1,874 |
| 2012 | 14 | #2,103 |
| 2011 | 23 | #1,421 |
| 2010 | 36 | #1,004 |
| 2009 | 39 | #927 |
| 2008 | 51 | #750 |
| 2007 | 39 | #880 |
| 2006 | 38 | #853 |
| 2005 | 43 | #759 |
| 2004 | 50 | #648 |
| 2003 | 73 | #495 |
| 2002 | 82 | #435 |
| 2001 | 94 | #387 |
| 2000 | 90 | #398 |
| 1999 | 85 | #415 |
| 1998 | 72 | #467 |
| 1997 | 71 | #470 |
| 1996 | 76 | #440 |
How popular is Sabah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Sabah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1968.
Half of all the girls named Sabah in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sabah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,932 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,655 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,355 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,036 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,707 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,615 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,711 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,829 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,835 |
| 1987 | 8 | #7,982 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,883 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,775 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,014 |
Names like Sabah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Farah, Zainab, Sumayyah, Aaliyah, Samah, Hibah, Summer, Safaa, Ayah, Safiya, Hiba
Names related to Sabah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sabah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sabah, updated 20 October 2026.