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Updated February 29, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Dark-brown color fur; black

Girl name variations

How Popular Is The Name Sable

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived in a sandy place, from sable ‘sand’.
  • French (Sablé) : habitational name from a place so called in Sarthe.
  • Dutch and North German : metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from sabel ‘sable’, ‘black fur’.

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