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Sabra vs Sabryna

American parents have registered 4,960 Sabras since 1880, against 815 Sabrynas. Sabra is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sabra against Sabryna, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sabra Sabryna

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 137 years in which either name was published, Sabra for 128 years and Sabryna for 9 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Sabra Sabryna
Total US births 4,960815
Most in one year 15564
Babies in 2025 85
Estimated living today 3,800800
Median age today 4927
Peak year 19611997
Best rank 848th girls2,158th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th14,942nd
First recorded 18801970
Girls / boys 4,960 / 0815 / 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 Sabras alive today are over 49; half the Sabrynas are over 27. That is 22 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 Sabra Sabryna
France 27050

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: Sabra and Sabryna.