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Sabino vs Sabrina

American parents have registered 142,948 Sabrinas since 1880, against 1,887 Sabinos. Sabrina is still ahead, with 956 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sabino against Sabrina, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sabino Sabrina

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, Sabrina for 75 years and Sabino for 39 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Sabino Sabrina
Total US births 1,887142,948
Most in one year 305,823
Babies in 2025 10956
Estimated living today 1,300137,000
Median age today 3533
Peak year 20011997
Best rank 2,988th boys53rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th321st
First recorded 19101916
Girls / boys 0 / 1,887142,601 / 347

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 Sabrinas are over 33. That is 2 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 Sabino Sabrina
France 5095,895
Italy 57619,020

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: Sabino and Sabrina.