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Sabine vs Sabino

American parents have registered 3,387 Sabines since 1880, against 1,887 Sabinos. Sabine is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sabine against Sabino, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sabine Sabino

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Sabine for 59 years and Sabino for 55 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Sabine Sabino
Total US births 3,3871,887
Most in one year 10830
Babies in 2025 8710
Estimated living today 3,3001,300
Median age today 1835
Peak year 20072001
Best rank 1,908th girls2,988th boys
Rank in 2025 2,139th7,679th
First recorded 19161910
Girls / boys 3,387 / 00 / 1,887

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sabinos alive today are over 35; half the Sabines are over 18. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sabine Sabino
France 64,04550

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sabine and Sabino.