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Sabin

Boys' name

Descendant of Sabhán

Sabin has been given to 719 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Sabin, 2024

1 in 334,000

Sabin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sabin: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Sabhán

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sabin means

Sabin means “descendant of Sabhán”, associated with Sabháin.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an English and French surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Sabinus. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Sabháin (“descendant of Sabhán”), from sabh (“cub”). Also found as Savage.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Sabin (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Sabin is used in English, Basque and Polish.

Sabin comes through Latin Sabinus.

Sabin is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Sabin is pronounced /s̺abin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 713 boys were recorded with the name Sabin between 1917 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1999; its best national rank was #2,314 in 1976.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Sabin between 1999 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1999; its best national rank was #14,055 in 1999.

How common is Sabin?

Sabin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sabin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sabin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sabins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabin was born before 2001 — so the typical Sabin is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
700
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (196).

Is Sabin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (27)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,314
1976

Spellings of Sabin

Sabin is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 38.7% against Sabin's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sabin is used

Across 1910–2025, Sabin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,743,270 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sabin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sabin around the world

Where Sabin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #5,703
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sabin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,314
1976
Peak year
1999
27 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
713
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#14,055
1999
Peak year
1999
6 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sabin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sabin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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