Given name & surname
Sabas
Sabas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Lithuanian usage, Sabas is a diminutive of Sebastijonas. In Lithuanian usage, Sabas is a diminutive of Sebastinas.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sabas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 739
- 739 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,417 as a first name in 2020; 509 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sabas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Sabas is a diminutive of Sebastijonas. In Lithuanian usage, Sabas is a diminutive of Sebastinas.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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