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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sable

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#2,717

up +2,286 places

2025 births

64

up +37 births

All-time births

1,702

4% of them in 2025

More common than

93%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1986
181 births
Best rank
#902
in 1986
First recorded
1923
#5,593 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1997
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
50 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1986181#902Peak
  2. 1989156#1,084
  3. 1987116#1,233
  4. 198888#1,528
  5. 199174#1,909

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #902 in 1986 · peak births 181 in 1986

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

16 boys · 1,702 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Sable has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.