Sababu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: motive

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Sababu is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

motive

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sababu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sababu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—listed—

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Sababu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Şababu

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Sababu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ff, reason, cause, motive

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Krio, permission

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tft, because

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Sababu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sababu mean, and where does it come from?
motive Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Sababu have the most bearers?
Sababu is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sababu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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