Sabia

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Used in Ireland as a translation of Sive

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈsɑbiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sabia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 160K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 22K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 43K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,074 people, 2010

Sources
224 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Used in Ireland as a translation of Sive.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sabia is read(measured from records)

Sabia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English58%

    Used in Ireland as a translation of Sive.

    as a nameIrish first names

    Irish; the sweet one.

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  • Spanish9.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabia in Spanish.

  • Portuguese7.7%

    first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of saber

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French5.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabia in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sabia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sabia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,0741 in 160K2.1KSabia224
IT Italy≈1,400 est.≈1 in 43K1Sabia24
BR Brazil1,2331 in 172K1.2K—2
PK Pakistan≈610 est.≈1 in 381KlistedSabia15
GB United Kingdom≈370 est.≈1 in 177K23Sabia66
GH Ghana≈270 est.≈1 in 111K—Sabia12
UY Uruguay1571 in 22K157——

2,074 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sabia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Sabiá, Sabía

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Şabia, Sabiâ

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Belgium

    Also written Sabía, Sabià, Sãbíã, Sábia, Sabiá

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sabià, Sabiá

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sabia 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 Arabic, captivating, enchanting, charming

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • Irish: Latinized form of Gaelic SADHBH , in use during the Middle Ages and occasionally at the present day.

    as a word

  • In osp, female equivalent of sabio, a learned woman

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

190019201940196019802000Laura Sabia, b. 1916Michael Sabia, b. 1953Donato Sabia, b. 1963Emilio Sabia, b. 1978Juan Sabia, b. 1981Séverine Sabia, b. 1981Dia Saba, b. 1992

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)

FormalDear Sabia,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Sabia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,409
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#17,924
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,959
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,650
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—157—
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200223#82,763
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Sabia mean, and where does it come from?
Used in Ireland as a translation of Sive. Recorded by Irish first names.
How do you pronounce Sabia?
A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑbiə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sabia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Sabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabia.
Where is Sabia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sabia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sabia?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,074 people named Sabia in 2010, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.

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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, “Sabia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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