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Sabrina vs Zabrina

American parents have registered 142,948 Sabrinas since 1880, against 1,374 Zabrinas. Sabrina is still ahead, with 956 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sabrina Zabrina

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

Sabrina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Sabrina had 1,325 and Zabrina had 40.

Side by side

  Sabrina Zabrina
Total US births 142,9481,374
Most in one year 5,82350
Babies in 2025 956under 5
Estimated living today 137,0001,300
Median age today 3334
Peak year 19971977
Best rank 53rd girls1,952nd girls
Rank in 2025 321stunranked
First recorded 19161965
Girls / boys 142,601 / 3471,374 / 0

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.

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 Sabrina Zabrina
England and Wales 3,21124

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: Sabrina and Zabrina.