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Sabian vs Sabrena

American parents have registered 1,982 Sabrenas since 1880, against 973 Sabians. But in 2025 it was Sabian that was commoner, 14 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sabian against Sabrena, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sabian Sabrena

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 71 years in which either name was published, Sabrena for 44 years and Sabian for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sabian Sabrena
Total US births 9731,982
Most in one year 99107
Babies in 2025 14under 5
Estimated living today 9601,900
Median age today 2149
Peak year 19991970
Best rank 1,303rd boys1,099th girls
Rank in 2025 6,143rdunranked
First recorded 19761955
Girls / boys 21 / 9521,982 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sabrenas alive today are over 49; half the Sabians are over 21. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sabian Sabrena
England and Wales 634

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sabian and Sabrena.