Sabah is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sabah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sabah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sabah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sabah ranks at #9,127. That means there are 9,126 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sabah.
In fact, the name Sabah hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Sabah wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1996, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 4,171, 22 parents chose it in 1996 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Sabah, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sabah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Sabah a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 11,784, for a total of 6 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Sabah seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Meeting a woman or girl named Sabah is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Sabah can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Sabah. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Sabah living in one state or another (if your name is Sabah and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Sabah is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00023% of all female residents are named Sabah – that’s just one in 441,975! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 59 women with that name. So, if your name is Sabah, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Sabah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sabah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sabah, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Butterfly
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sabah
Sabah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
B
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
B
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sabah sounds like this:
