Sabr

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Acronym of Society for American Baseball Research

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/səbɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sabr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 547K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Belgium (measured from records)

11 people, 2008

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 547K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Acronym of Society for American Baseball Research.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sabr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium111 in 1.1M11—4
NO Norway101 in 547K10——
US United States——11Sabr49
GB United Kingdom———Sabr12
DE Germany———Sabr17
IQ Iraq———Sabr7

11 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Sabr is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sâbř, Sâbr, Šabř

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, United States, India, Iraq

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Såbr, Sâbr, Sābř, Sābr

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Ukrainian

    Also written Сабр, Sabres

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ṣabr

36 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)

Sabr is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • aloe, endurance, patience

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Uzbek, patience

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

  • In Breton, sable de carrière

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

  • In Breton, sève

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Sabr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200811#67,221
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—10#57,551
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sabr mean, and where does it come from?
Acronym of Society for American Baseball Research. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sabr?
A machine transcription gives /səbɹ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Sabr have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 11 people named Sabr, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sabr most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sabr is densest in Norway — about 1 in 547 thousand people — even though Belgium holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sabr?
In Belgium, the national register counted 11 people named Sabr in 2008, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Sabr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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