Given name & surname
Sabela
“one who is sleek”
Sabela is a variant of Sable. One English interpretation is “one who is sleek.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sabela is a variant of Sable. One English interpretation is “one who is sleek.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sabela is a variant of Sable. An origin associated with Sable is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sabela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 0 boys · 51 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 9 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 girls is 8 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2017.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sabela’s family of names
In Galician usage, Sabela has a conventional equivalent in the German form Isabel. Sabela has a related form in Sable. In Galician usage, Sabela has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 伊麗莎白.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sabela
- Sabela AránSpanish actressborn 1987
- Sabela Arias CastroSpanish painter, cartoonist, visual artistborn 1969
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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