Saba

Saba is the 8,164th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,882 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 77,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,882
Rank: 8,164th
How common: 1 in 77,000
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Borrowed from Arabic صبا.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Saba described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.2%
Hispanic or Latino 11.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Saba

Umberto Saba (1883–1957)Italian poet and novelist
Agnete Saba (born 1994)Saami singer-songwriter from Norway
Saba (born 1997)Danish singer
Nicole Saba (born 1974)Lebanese singer and actress
Gian Franco Saba (born 1968)Italian Catholic Archbishop of Sassari
Isak Saba (1875–1921)Sami politician, teacher, and poet
Dia Saba (born 1992)Arab-Israeli association footballer of Palestinian descent
Steeven Saba (born 1993)Haitian association football player

People named Saba with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Saba

Also a first name

Saba has been given to 1,681 American babies as a first name since 1970, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.