Sabella
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A seaworm of the genus Sabella, around 25 cm long, which lives in tubes that it builds itself
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səˈbɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sabella is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A seaworm of the genus Sabella, around 25 cm long, which lives in tubes that it builds itself.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sabella is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante regional de Savella
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: modern name, apparently derived from Isabella by the dropping of the initial vowel (see ISABEL ).
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Salvatore Sabellab. 1891ITAmerican mob boss
- Andrés Simon Expedito Florentino Sabella Galvezb. 1912CLChilean writer (1912-1989)
- Ernie Sabellab. 1949USAmerican actor
- Alejandro Sabellab. 1954ARArgentine association football player and manager (1954-2020)
- Alfonso Sabellab. 1962ITItalian magistrate
- Marzia Sabellab. 1965ITmagistrate from Italy
- Giuseppe Sabellab. 1966photographer
- Agustín Sabellab. 1977UYUruguayan painter (born 1977)
- Barbara Sabellab. 1978CZCzech opera singer
- Luna Sabellab. 2011NLDutch pop singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,000 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,731 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 890 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 207 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 138 | #49,506 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 40 | #41,249 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #79,375 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #73,892 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,291 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sabella mean, and where does it come from?
- A seaworm of the genus Sabella, around 25 cm long, which lives in tubes that it builds itself. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Sabella?
- In the etymology graph, Bess, Liss and Beti are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sabella?
- A machine transcription gives /səˈbɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sabella have the most bearers?
- Sabella is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabellaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sabella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.