Sabie
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/saβje/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sabie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian сабя (sabja), from Proto-Slavic *sabľa.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
- ESSpain1 in 4.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sabie
- Spanish:/saβje/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Bulgarianсабяsabja(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*sabľa(measured from records)
Borrowed from Bulgarian сабя (sabja), from Proto-Slavic *sabľa.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sabie is found
(measured from records)Sabie 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Sabie | 6 |
| US United States | 144 | 1 in 2.3M | 160 | Sabie | 90 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 538K | — | Sabie | 9 |
| IT Italy | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sabie | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Sabie | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sabie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, sword
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)- Francis Sabieb. 1587English poet
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sabie mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bulgarian сабя (sabja), from Proto-Slavic *sabľa. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- How do you pronounce Sabie?
- In Spanish /saβje/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sabie?
- Mondonomo estimates about 322 people named Sabie in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabie. After it come United States, South Africa, Italy and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sabie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 144 people named Sabie in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sabie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabieThe 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, “Sabie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.