Sabina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: savin (Juniperus sect. Sabina)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 55 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/sabina/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sabina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 26th most common given name.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 210(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 492
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 800
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sabina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 209 (inferred from the name graph)
186,700 named Sabrina, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sabrina in BR Brazil, US United States, IT Italy.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Irish Saidhbhin, a diminutive of Sadhbh; also used to translate Sile.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sabina is read
(measured from records)Sabina 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.
- Spanish34%
savin (Juniperus sect. Sabina)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabina in Hindi.
- English12%
Irish Saidhbhin, a diminutive of Sadhbh; also used to translate Sile.
as a nameIrish first names
Latin; from the Sabines, a tribe of central Italy.
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Latin; a Sabine woman (from central Italy)
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- Bangla8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabina in Bangla.
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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sabina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sabina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #257 | 186,700as Sabrina | 1 in 1.1K | 187K | Sabrina | 213 |
| DE Germany | #826 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 477 | — | Sabina | 166 |
| IT Italy | #682 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 348 | 149 | Sabrina | 123 |
| IN India | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 4.3K | Sabina | 84 |
| US United States | — | 125,167as Sabrina | 1 in 2.7K | 125K | Sabrina | 397 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #26 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 209 | 45 | Sabina | 56 |
| PL Poland | #175 | 45,672 | 1 in 838 | 46K | Sabina | 128 |
| AT Austria | #484 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 307 | 14K | Sabina | 85 |
| CZ Czechia | #208 | 21,742 | 1 in 492 | 22K | Sabina | 106 |
186,700 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sabina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Latin. See main dictionary. Masculine form: Sabino. 287
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Sabina är ett latinskt namn med betydelsen ’sabinsk kvinna’, en bildning till folkslagsbeteckningen Sabini (fornitaliskt folk som levde nordost om Rom). Sabine är en fransk och tysk form. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 27 okto ber, till minne av en romersk martyr som levde på 100-talet.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)- Maria Anna Sophia of Saxonyb. 1728DEnot in their usual namewife of Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria; daughter of Augustus III of Poland and Maria Josepha of Austria
- Sabina Spielreinb. 1885RURussian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942)
- Sabina Babayevab. 1979AZsinger from Azerbaijan
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)119 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 55 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sabina come from?
- Irish Saidhbhin, a diminutive of Sadhbh; also used to translate Sile. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What does the name Sabina mean?
- In Spanish, savin (Juniperus sect. Sabina)
- What are other forms of the name Sabina?
- In the etymology graph, Sabine, Savina and Szabina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Sabina a male or female name?
- Sabina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Slovenia (SURS, 2025), among others.
- How do you pronounce Sabina?
- In Spanish /sabina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Sabina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 187 thousand people named Sabrina, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, Italy, India and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sabina?
- In Poland, the national register counted 45,672 people named Sabina in 2026, about 1 in 838 residents.
- How common is Sabina compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Sabina is the 257th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sabina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabinaThe 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, “Sabina” — the 257th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.