Sabela
Torn between Sabela and another name? Compare them side by side →
Meaning
the Galician form of Isabel, God is my oath; the Galician version drops the opening syllable entirely
How popular is Sabela around the world?
In the United States, Sabela is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Spain, 4,088 residents are named Sabela, the 550th most common name among women, with a mean age of 19.3 years.
Sabela is on the official records of the United States, Spain and Brazil.
United States
on record
In the United States, Sabela is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sabela has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 11,000
In Spain, 4,088 residents are named Sabela, the 550th most common name among women, with a mean age of 19.3 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 26 people in Brazil were named Sabela, ranked 104,241st, with a median age of 14.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
England and Wales
last on record 2017
Sabela is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Montevideo City
last on record 1959
Sabela is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
Keep exploring
The Sabela deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Sabela truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Sabela fits with your family’s names and surname.
Does Sabela fit YOUR family?
nametree reads your family’s names and finds the ones that belong. Free, private, no ads.
Add Sabela to your family’s tree →