Saba
Girl name · 3 babies recorded · 1974–2025
Saba: 3 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to girls, peaking at 3 births in 2007.
Saba is a name with multiple roots, though the most common for English speakers leads back to the Queen of Sheba, who visited King Solomon in the Hebrew Bible. In Arabic, it is a feminine name meaning "morning wind" or "of the East wind," while in Amharic (Ethiopia), it derives from the same ancient kingdom, Sabā. The most famous modern bearer is Saba Mahmood, a renowned Pakistani-American anthropologist, while the scholar and physician Abu al-Hasan al-Saba may also be noted. There is no major named city directly tied to a bearer, but the root inspired the name of the Sabaean kingdom and the island of Sheba in Yemen. Notably, Saba has seen a gentle rise in Scotland since the 2010s, often linked to the Somali-born, Scottish-raised activist and poet Saba Raja.
Girl 1 of 52 years
- Peak year
- 20073 babies
- Latest (2007)
- #7443 babies
- Total births
- 3since 2007
- 5-year trend
- ≈ stablevs prior 5y