Sable
#2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 181 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,702since 1923
Sable over time
Rank among girls' names. Sable has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,691 | 64 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | — | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,205 | 68 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,188 | 65 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,302 | 35 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,220 | 35 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,433 | 53 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,894 | 74 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,011 | 67 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,080 | 156 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,521 | 88 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,227 | 116 | — | |
| 1986 | #900 | 181 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
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| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
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| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sable! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sable
- 2,202 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #2,691)
- 2,623 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #2,691)
- 4,575 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #2,691)
- Biggest jump: 4,778 spots in 1986 (#5,678 → #900)
- Biggest drop: 327 spots in 1987 (#900 → #1,227)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 1986 at #900 (181 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1986
- Highest: 1 in 9,478 girls born in 1986 were named Sable (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Sable (560) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,627 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,701 (1936) | #3,774 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,954 (1941) | #4,599 |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,837 (1956) | #5,069 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 560 | #900 (1986) | #3,093 |
| 1990s | 503 | #1,894 (1991) | #2,700 |
| 2000s | 221 | #3,169 (2000) | #6,193 |
| 2010s | 175 | #4,773 (2019) | #7,737 |
| 2020s | 197 | #2,691 (2025) | #4,554 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sable in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 25,114 of them was named Sable, which outranked 84.4% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #2,645Veera65
- #2,645Wylie65
- #2,645Zaylani65
- #2,691Sable64
- #2,691Adelyne64
- #2,691Aeris64
- #2,691Alayla64
- #2,719Aditi63
- #2,719Aiko63
- #2,719Asher63
Tied with 27 names at #2,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 284,679 of them was named Sable, which outranked 23.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #9,714Zyn7
- #9,714Zyonn7
- #9,714Zyree7
- #10,695Sable6
- #10,695Aadhyan6
- #10,695Aadish6
- #10,695Aamari6
- #12,008Aadan5
- #12,008Aadhavan5
- #12,008Aalam5
Tied with 1,312 names at #10,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.