Sabella
Feminine · “God is my oath”
Sabella is Isabella with the front removed, and Isabella is itself Elizabeth with the front removed — the same trick performed twice.
How old is the name Sabella?
Sabella first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Sabella is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Sabella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sabella most popular?
Sabella peaked in 2013, reaching #2259 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 2,093 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Sabella
Ours, offered as ours. Names erode from the front as often as from the back, and Elisheva has lost a syllable twice: once in medieval Spain, giving Isabel, and again in modern America, giving Sabella. Each time the result became a separate name that people stopped connecting to the parent — for centuries Isabel and Elizabeth were used interchangeably for the same woman, and now hardly anyone knows they are one name.
Meaning
God is my oath
From Hebrew Elisheva, God is my oath, through Greek Elisabet; Provençal and Spanish dropped the first syllable to give Isabel, and English naming has now dropped another to give Sabella.
Pronouncing Sabella
suh-BEL-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Sabella
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1986
- Most girls named
- 201683 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2259reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −22.0%32 in 2025, from 41
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sabella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Isabella in Italian — related form
- Isabel in Spanish — related form
- Elisheva in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Sabellas among us
people named Sabella are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Sabella
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kaysie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sabella's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kaysie climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kaysie's path sketches the road Sabella is walking now.
Sabella sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Sabella is headed
Sabella is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Sabella beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sabella in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Bella and Ella are both complete names in very current use.
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Isabella is far more common and will be assumed and written.
- It reads as a shortening to people who know Isabella.
- Seven letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
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Feminine · #4352 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Sabellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Sabella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sabella in 2025?
- Sabella ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sabella?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Sabella — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sabella with classmates?
- Sabella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sabella
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Sigrid#4352 · Adel#4352 · Lovella#4352 · Kaysha#4352 · Arissa#4352 · Joseline#4352 · Yajaira#4352 · Elma#4352
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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