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Saban - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Saban

[ 2 syll. sa-ban, sab-an ] The boy name Saban is pronounced SEYBahN KEY. Saban is of Arabic origin, and it is used mainly in the Albanian and Arabic languages. Derived from the element sabban which means 'soap maker, soap merchant'. It represents the transferred use of the surname as a given name.

Saban is not regularly used as a baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Saban include the name Savan, the Armenian Sevan, the Arabic Shaban, the English Shafan, the Hebrew Shaphan, the English Shayfan, the Indian Shobhan, the Hebrew Sivan, the Cambodian Sovann, the Irish Stiofán, the Slavic Stjepan, the Polish Szczepan, the English Cevin, the Italian Sabino, the Italian Savino, the English Savion, the English and Hebrew Savyon, the Arabic Sofian, the Arabic and French Sofiane, and the English Sophian.

KEY: English pronunciation for Saban: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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