Sabir
Masculine · “patient”
Sabir means patient, and in Islamic thought patience is not a mild virtue. Sabr is endurance under difficulty — the thing asked for when there is nothing else to be done — and it is named again and again in the Qur'an as what God loves.
How old is the name Sabir?
Sabir first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Sabir is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Sabir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sabir most popular?
Sabir peaked in 2017, reaching #2637 nationally. Today it ranks #2941, 304 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sabir to Sabir
The story of Sabir
Sabr appears throughout the Qur'an as the response asked of believers in hardship, and the phrase about God being with the patient is among the most-quoted in the book. That gave the name real standing, and it is used across the Arab world, Turkey, the Balkans, Central Asia and South Asia. It reaches United States records from all of those and, since the twentieth century, from African-American families as part of the wider turn toward Arabic names.
Meaning
patient, enduring, steadfast
Arabic sabir is the active participle of sabara, 'to be patient, to endure' — so one who is being patient rather than one who possesses patience as a trait. The noun sabr is the quality itself. The reading is documented and undisputed, and al-Sabur, the Patient, is among the ninety-nine names of God.
How the name formed
- sabir
- Sabir
Related forms: Sabir · Sabir · Sabir · Sabir
Pronouncing Sabir
SAH-bir
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long first vowel in Arabic. English speakers sometimes say suh-BEER, moving the stress to the end, which is a different shape.
Nicknames for Sabir
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
- 1979
- Most boys named
- 201747 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2637reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +44.8%42 in 2025, from 29
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.
Sabir in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sabir in Arabic — transliteration
- Sabir in Turkish — same name
- Sabir in Urdu — same name
- Sabir in Bosnian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York.
Sabirs among us
people named Sabir are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 40,668 born in 2025 was named Sabir
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sabir
- #2941
- Sabir on the 2025 chart
- #877
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sabir went to 42 boys in 2025, but Saabir is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 51, which makes it the 877th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,064 places above the chart.
- Sabir42
- Saabir9
About 1 boy in 33,492 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 40,668 for Sabir itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darshan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sabir's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darshan climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darshan's path sketches the road Sabir is walking now.
Sabir 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 Sabir is headed
Sabir should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Sabir beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sabir in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented meaning naming a demanding virtue rather than a pleasant quality.
- Five letters, no silent ones, and readable at first sight in English.
- Recognized across the whole Muslim world without any explanation.
- The stress falls differently in Arabic and in American English, so the child will hear both.
- Sabir, Sabeer and Saber all circulate and the last is a different English word.
- It is close to the English 'sober' when said quickly by an unfamiliar speaker.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sabirs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Sabir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sabir?
- Sabir is the most-used spelling in US records — 42 of the 51 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Saabir.
- How popular is the name Sabir in 2025?
- Sabir ranks #2941 among US boy names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sabir?
- About 1 in every 40,668 US boys born in 2025 was named Sabir — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sabir with classmates?
- Sabir will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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