Saber
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- SAH-ber
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Saber is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “patient”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Saber mean?
Arabic: Egyptian and Persian spelling of Sabir
“patient”
From Arabic sabr 'patience'; al-Sabur, 'the Patient', is one of the 99 names of God in Islam.
Is Saber a girl's or a boy's name?
Saber is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saber in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 5 boys.
Saber in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,161 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,231 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #2,990 |
| 2002 | 3 | #3,325 |
How popular is Saber in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Saber, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1988.
2025 had fewer boys named Saber than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Saber in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Saber in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,044 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,692 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,834 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,612 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,862 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,420 |
Names like Saber
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Muhammad, Umar, Musa, Ahmed, Zayd, Abdullah, Zayan, Amir, Zayaan, Rayyan, Mustafa
Names related to Saber
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
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, “Saber: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saber, updated 20 October 2026.