Sabra

Where Sabra comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew צַבָּר (tsabár, “prickly pear cactus”), from Arabic صَبَّار (ṣabbār, “cactus”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sabra
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #633
    13 babies named Sabra — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1901
    Sabra Klein born
    American microbiologist
  5. 1987
    Sabra Johnson born
    Dutch dancer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Sabra Johnson · Dutch dancer, born 1987
  • Sabra Williams · British actress and presenter
  • Sabra Klein · American microbiologist, born 1901

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.