Saba is a distinctive choice, ranked #1639 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Saba in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#1639
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About the Name Saba
Saba has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 467 places in five years. It was most popular in 2002 at #508 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Saba is uncommon in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Saba in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Saba
Saba Karim — Syed Saba Karim () is a former Indian cricketer.
Saba Ali Khan — Saba Ali Khan Pataudi is an Indian jewellery designer and mutawalli (Chief Trustee) of the Auqaf-e-Shahi (Royal Trust), established by the-then ‘Princely State’ of the Kingdom of Bhopal as a royal charitable endowment.
Saba Valadkhan — Saba Valadkhan (Persian: صبا ولدخان) is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Saba
Unlikely. With around 18 UK babies named Saba per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Saba in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Saba is declining: down 287 places since 2020, to #1,639 in 2025. It peaked at #508 in 2002.
Saba is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Saba include: Saba Karim, Saba Ali Khan and Saba Valadkhan. Short summaries for each appear below.
Saba does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Sabas in the wild.
18
UK babies named Saba (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
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In a school of 600
↓ 287 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Saba
Almost certainly the only Saba in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Saba
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Saba Ali Khan Pataudi is an Indian jewellery designer and mutawalli (Chief Trustee) of the Auqaf-e-Shahi (Royal Trust), established by the-then ‘Princely State’ of the Kingdom of Bhopal as a royal charitable endowment.
Saba Valadkhan (Persian: صبا ولدخان) is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Metropolitan Saba Esper (also spelled Isper) (Arabic: سابا (إسبر), born 1959) is the Antiochian Orthodox Metropolitan over the Archdiocese of New York and All North America, formerly the metropolitan archbishop of Bosra, Hauran and Jabal al-Arab in Syria.
The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas Greek: Ἱερὰ Λαύρα τοῦ Ὁσίου Σάββα τοῦ Ἡγιασμένου, romanized: Yerá Lávra tú Osíu Sávva tú Iyazménu, known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ, romanized: Dayrā d-Mār Sabba; Levantine Arabic: دير مار سابا, romanized: Dēr Mār Sābā; ) and historically as the Great Laura of Saint Sabas, is a Greek Orthodox Christian monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the Bethlehem Governorate of Palestine in the West Bank, at a point halfway between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea.