Saba
A Hebrew name meaning "old man" or "grandfather". In Poland it's given mostly to boys and stays genuinely rare: only a few hundred people carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Saba Pronunciation
Saba is pronounced SAH-bah (/ˈsaba/).
What Saba means
Where Saba comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Saba comes from Hebrew, where it names something ordinary and honored at once: the old man, the grandfather. In Aramaic the same word, saba, meant the elder of a household, the one whose years gave him standing. The short meaning stays close. To carry Saba is to wear the word for grandfather as a given name.
The name traveled into Arabic surroundings and kept its shape. Its best known bearer is Saint Sabas the Sanctified, a monk born in Cappadocia in 439, who founded a monastery in the Judean desert that still bears his name. The Church remembers him on the fifth of December, and Polish calendars mark Saba there too.
So a boy named Saba shares a name-day with a desert abbot. Picture the entry in a class register, one short name among the longer ones. It means old man, grandfather, and it says so plainly.
When Saba celebrates name day
Saba appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 12 April.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Saba
1 in 64103 men in Poland is named Saba. 362 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1573 among male names.
Saba's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Saba is most popular
Saba is most popular in Silesian, 850% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Saba as a middle name
Saba is a first name for 362 men in Poland and a middle name for another 44, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1038th, between Pilar (44) and Sky (44).
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#1036 Maureen44
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#1037 Pilar44
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#1038 Saba44
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#1039 Sky44
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#1040 Skye44