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Sabrena vs Saby

American parents have registered 1,982 Sabrenas since 1880, against 32 Sabys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sabrena Saby

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

Sabrena has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1972, when Sabrena had 50 and Saby had 7.

Side by side

  Sabrena Saby
Total US births 1,98232
Most in one year 10713
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,90030
Median age today 4954
Peak year 19701970
Best rank 1,099th girls4,246th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19551970
Girls / boys 1,982 / 032 / 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 Sabys alive today are over 54; half the Sabrenas are over 49. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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