# Sabina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sabina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “a sabine” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,082 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 8,082 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 687, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 113 | 1,803 |
| 2012 | 98 | 1,998 |
| 2013 | 89 | 2,134 |
| 2014 | 101 | 1,980 |
| 2015 | 95 | 2,074 |
| 2016 | 107 | 1,896 |
| 2017 | 94 | 2,084 |
| 2018 | 105 | 1,910 |
| 2019 | 71 | 2,501 |
| 2020 | 76 | 2,336 |
| 2021 | 72 | 2,481 |
| 2022 | 80 | 2,341 |
| 2023 | 99 | 1,998 |
| 2024 | 71 | 2,526 |
| 2025 | 68 | 2,579 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 1,269 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,583 |
| 2013 | 29 | 1,177 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,362 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,635 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,681 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,272 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,703 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,773 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,505 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,621 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,771 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## In other languages

- Czech: Sabina
- Danish: Sabina, Sabine
- Finnish: Sabina
- French: Sabrina, Sabine, Sébrina
- German: Sabine
- Hungarian: Szabina
- Latvian: Sabīne
- Polish: Sabina
- Spanish: Sébrina
- Swedish: Sabina

## People named Sabina

- Sabina of Bavaria, Bavarian Duchess
- Sabina Aliyeva, Azerbaijani civil servant
- Sabina Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani artist (born 1962)
- Sabina Ćudić, Bosnian politician
- Sabina Began, German actress
- Sabina Moya, Colombian athletics competitor (born 1977)
- Sabina Jeschke, German mechanical engineer
- Sabina Olmos, Argentinian actor
- Sabina Frederic, Argentinian anthropologist
- Sabina Orellana, Bolivian politician
- Sabina Franklyn, British actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.