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.
Where Sable is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#663 · 1 in 5,583
- Georgia#739 · 1 in 6,532
- Florida#891 · 1 in 8,677
- Michigan#981 · 1 in 11,594
- Texas#1,025 · 1 in 9,913
Best ever in a state: #340 in South Carolina, 1986.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | #663 | 13 | 1 in 5,583 |
| Georgia | #739 | 6 | 1 in 6,532 |
| Florida | #891 | 8 | 1 in 8,677 |
| Michigan | #981 | 5 | 1 in 11,594 |
| Texas | #1,025 | 13 | 1 in 9,913 |
| New York | #1,406 | 7 | 1 in 15,981 |
| California | #1,568 | 11 | 1 in 19,556 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 14,988 of them was named Sable, which outranked 90.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,222Kenyatta117
- #1,222Shavonne117
- #1,222Tamera117
- #1,227Sable116
- #1,227Bethanie116
- #1,227Francisca116
- #1,227Greta116
- #1,234Aleisha115
- #1,234Anabel115
- #1,234Anastacia115
Tied with 6 names at #1,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.