Given name & surname
Sabra
“resembling the cactus fruit; to rest”
Sabra is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling the cactus fruit; to rest.”
Original Hebrewסַבְּרֶה
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling the cactus fruit; to rest.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From Hebrew צַבָּר (tsabár, “prickly pear cactus”), from Arabic صَبَّار (“cactus”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sabra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,960
- 0 boys · 4,960 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 155 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,739 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −22%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,739 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 155 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,760 as a first name in 2020; 482 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.
Sabra’s family of names
Sabra has a related form in Sabre. Sabra has a related form in Sabira. Sabra has a related form in Sabera.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Sabiravariant
- Sabrevariant
- Sabrahvariant
- Sabaravariant
- Saberavariant
- Sabarrahvariant
- Sabarravariant
- Sabarahvariant
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Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sabra
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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