# Sabine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sabine/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /səˈbiːn/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,387 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,387 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 213, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the Latin saint's name Sabina.

## 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 | 70 | 2,583 |
| 2012 | 101 | 1,952 |
| 2013 | 92 | 2,092 |
| 2014 | 97 | 2,033 |
| 2015 | 95 | 2,075 |
| 2016 | 78 | 2,409 |
| 2017 | 95 | 2,071 |
| 2018 | 64 | 2,707 |
| 2019 | 70 | 2,532 |
| 2020 | 68 | 2,546 |
| 2021 | 76 | 2,381 |
| 2022 | 91 | 2,120 |
| 2023 | 86 | 2,206 |
| 2024 | 108 | 1,865 |
| 2025 | 87 | 2,151 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 13 | 2,095 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 12 | 2,203 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,961 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3,035 |

## People named Sabine

- Sabine Azéma, French actress and director
- Sabine Busch, East German athlete
- Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
- Sabine Baring-Gould, English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector (1834-1
- Sabine John, East German heptathlete
- Sabine Spitz, German cyclist
- Sabine Meyer, German classical clarinetist (born 1959)
- Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
- Sabine Bischoff, German fencer (1958–2013)
- Sabine Derflinger, Austrian film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Sabine Payer, Austrian snowboarder
- Sabine Weiss, French photographer (1924–2021)

## 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.