Sabine
Sabine reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 1,908, and has been recorded 3,387 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,139th. About 3,300 Sabines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sabine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,387
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,908th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,139th
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Sabines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,387 babies given the name since 1916, about 3,300 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From the Latin saint's name Sabina.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sabines
- Sabine Lisicki (born 1989)German tennis player
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born 1946)German politician, last leader of East Germany
- Sabine Azéma (born 1949)French actress and director
- Sabine Busch (born 1962)East German athlete
- Sabine Braun (born 1965)German heptathlete
- Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector
- Sabine Hossenfelder (born 1976)German theoretical physicist
- Sabine Spitz (born 1971)German cyclist
People named Sabine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sabine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sabine is most concentrated in New York (4.0×), California (3.2×), Florida (2.3×), Washington (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Sabine peaked:
Sabine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Sabine | 64,035 | 28th |
| Austria girls | Sabine | 5,486 | 9th |
| Norway girls | Sabine | 285 | 314th |
| England and Wales girls | Sabine | 213 | 1,962nd |
| Belgium girls | Sabine | 51 | 629th |
| France boys | Sabine | 10 | 1,685th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sabine: rank by region
In 1998, Sabine was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Sabine | 713 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sabine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Sabine | 9,362 | 11,623 |
| Finland girls | Sabine | 97 | 199 |
| the Netherlands boys | Sabine | — | 40 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Sabine lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 604 women called Sabine were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Sabine | 89 | 0.161 | 647 |
| Balears, Illes | Sabine | 98 | 0.156 | 526 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Sabine | 82 | 0.080 | 950 |
| Palmas, Las | Sabine | 46 | 0.078 | 1,211 |
| Málaga | Sabine | 54 | 0.059 | 1,039 |
| Girona | Sabine | 21 | 0.051 | 1,271 |
Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Sabine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.