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Sabina

#2,579 in 2025Girls' name

A Sabine

Sabina has been given to 8,082 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,579 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Sabina, 2025

1 in 48,800

Sabina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sabina: meaning, origin, and history

A Sabine

Latin

What Sabina means

Sabina means “a Sabine”, associated with Sabīnus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Name of early saints, Latin Sabīna, feminine of the Roman cognomen Sabīnus (“a Sabine”), from an ancient tribe from Italy.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Sabina is used in English, Czech, Danish, German, Polish and Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

Sabina comes through Latin Sabīna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Sabina is pronounced [ˈsabɪna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,082 girls were recorded with the name Sabina between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 140 in 2005; its best national rank was #596 in 1889.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,336 in 2020 to #2,579 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,074 in 2015 to #2,579 in 2025.

How common is Sabina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,800
68 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,579
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sabina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,794 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sabina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sabinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabina was born before 1982 — so the typical Sabina is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,779
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (1,289).

Is Sabina 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
−53
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−243
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−505
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.6%
Peak was 2005 (140)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#596
1889

Spellings of Sabina

Sabina is not the most common spelling — Sabrina is, with 24.0% against Sabina's 1.4%.

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 Sabina is used

Across 2016–2025, Sabina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 18,541 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Illinois1 in 14,286
  4. 4Washington1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 25,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Sabina around the world

Where Sabina 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    1964–2023
    #727
    in 2023
  • France
    1922–2025
    #3,596
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #489
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sabina

People whose public names include Sabina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sabina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sabina. Linked forms have their own page here.

BinaSibiSabineSavinaSabrinaSabīneZabinaSzabina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sabina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 243
Best rank ever
#596
1889
Peak year
2005
140 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,082
Count in 2025
68

Names similar to Sabina

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

SabrinaSabineSabraRominaSalinaSarinaLavinaAlvinaSerinaDavinaRosinaShainaAlbinaMalinaKalinaEdwinaCorinaCelinaCarinaAudrinaAdinaSelinaMelinaBettina

Names with a curve like Sabina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sabina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SoledadLeanaPilarCoralSimonaMagdalenaLidiaInesAdelaClairMaryannaThais

Sibling names for Sabina

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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