Sabine
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a female given name, popular in Germany from the 1950's to the 1970's
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 44 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/saˈb̥i.nɛ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Sabine is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name.
- ATAustria≈1 in 140(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 160
- BEBelgium≈1 in 420
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 Sabine itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sabīne in LV Latvia.
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)}. river, US; county, TX, parish, LA
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sabine is read
(measured from records)Sabine is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- German62%
a female given name, popular in Germany from the 1950's to the 1970's
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French27%
savin (Juniperus sabina L.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
La sabine est une espèce de genévrier qui pousse surtout dans les contrées méridionales de l’Europe et doit son nom au peuple des Sabins.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- English5.8%
}. river, US; county, TX, parish, LA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
from the Sabines, an ancient tribe of central Italy
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Alternative form of savin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 Sabine, 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)Sabine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #31 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 157 | — | Sabine | 291 |
| FR France | — | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 64K | — | 10 |
| AT Austria | #29 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 6.2K | Sabine | 162 |
| BE Belgium | #180 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 423 | 9 | Sabine | 127 |
| CH Switzerland | #130 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 543 | 7 | Sabine | 108 |
| US United States | — | 6,490 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Sabine | 301 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,469 | 1 in 762 | 2.5K | Sabīne | 35 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Duchess Sabine of Württembergb. 1549FRPrincess of Württemberg by birth, and by marriage, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (1549-1581)
- Sabine Weissb. 1924FRFrench photographer (1924–2021)
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohlb. 1946DEGerman politician, last leader of East Germany
- Sabine Azémab. 1949FRFrench actress and director
- Sabine Christiansenb. 1957DEGerman journalist
- Sabine Braunb. 1965DEGerman heptathlete
- Sabine Bohlmannb. 1969DEGerman actress
- Sabine Timoteob. 1975CHSwiss actress
- Sabine Hossenfelderb. 1976DEGerman theoretical physicist
- Sabine Lisickib. 1989DEGerman tennis player
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)87 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 64K | #3,386 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.5K | #3,290 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 6.2K | #1,838 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 87 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25 | #3,290 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 15 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 15 | #3,139 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 9 | #819 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Sabine come from?
- }. river, US; county, TX, parish, LA Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Sabine?
- It depends on the language: in German /saˈb̥i.nɛ/ (Wiktionary); in French /sa.bin/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Sabine a male or female name?
- Sabine is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2023), among others.
- What does the name Sabine mean?
- In German, a female given name, popular in Germany from the 1950's to the 1970's
- In which country does Sabine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 531 thousand people named Sabine in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabine.
- What are other forms of the name Sabine?
- In the etymology graph, Sabina, Savina and Szabina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Sabine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,490 people named Sabine in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Sabine compared with other names?
- In Germany, Sabine is the 31st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabineThe 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, “Sabine” — the 31st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.