Sabine
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sabine is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: }. river, US; county, TX, parish, LA.
- DEGermany1 in 248◐
- ATAustria1 in 352
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 272 ●
- 1 in 762 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
558K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Sabīne in LV Latvia and 사빈 in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
}. river, US; county, TX, parish, LA
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #33 | 489,486 | 446K rec. | — | — | Sabine | 272 |
| NL Netherlands | #337 | 55,479 | 7.1K rec. | — | 9.4K | Sabine | 108 |
| AT Austria | #69 | 47,054 | 16K rec. | — | 6.2K | Sabine | 156 |
| BE Belgium | #214 | 8,006 | 6.8K rec. | — | 9 | Sabine | 118 |
| US United States | — | 6,465 | 51K rec. | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Sabine | 266 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,785 | 4.5K rec. | — | — | Sabine | 104 |
| CH Switzerland | #134 | 4,678 | 2.6K rec. | — | 7 | Sabine | 95 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,634 | 4.6K rec. | — | 3 | Sabine | 121 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,469△ | 72 rec. | 1 in 762 | 2.5K | Sabīne | 36 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,255 | 1.9K rec. | — | 2 | Sabine | 80 |
| DK Denmark | #452 | 1,721△ | 623 rec. | 1 in 3.4K | 1.7K | Sabine | 91 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,534 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 6.7K | 1.5K | Sabine | 48 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German573K49%
- French431K37%
- English58K5%
- Western Frisian21K2%
- Dutch19K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 572,761 | 49% |
| French | 430,684 | 37% |
| English | 58,116 | 5% |
| Western Frisian | 20,986 | 2% |
| Dutch | 18,545 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sabine is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the Sabines, an ancient tribe of central Italy
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In German, a female given name, popular in Germany from the 1950's to the 1970's
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, savin (Juniperus sabina L.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of savin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, 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)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 14 |
| 1959 | 19 |
| 1960 | 12 |
| 1961 | 14 |
| 1962 | 22 |
| 1963 | 23 |
| 1964 | 26 |
| 1965 | 26 |
| 1966 | 31 |
| 1967 | 29 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 38 |
| 1970 | 41 |
| 1971 | 33 |
| 1972 | 29 |
| 1973 | 26 |
| 1974 | 27 |
| 1975 | 24 |
| 1976 | 24 |
| 1977 | 25 |
| 1978 | 21 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 29 |
| 1981 | 21 |
| 1982 | 22 |
| 1983 | 21 |
| 1984 | 26 |
| 1985 | 23 |
| 1986 | 28 |
| 1987 | 23 |
| 1988 | 23 |
| 1989 | 25 |
| 1990 | 25 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 30 |
| 1993 | 32 |
| 1994 | 22 |
| 1995 | 36 |
| 1996 | 37 |
| 1997 | 66 |
| 1998 | 54 |
| 1999 | 40 |
| 2000 | 55 |
| 2001 | 69 |
| 2002 | 81 |
| 2003 | 74 |
| 2004 | 63 |
| 2005 | 90 |
| 2006 | 92 |
| 2007 | 108 |
| 2008 | 101 |
| 2009 | 106 |
| 2010 | 98 |
| 2011 | 70 |
| 2012 | 101 |
| 2013 | 92 |
| 2014 | 97 |
| 2015 | 95 |
| 2016 | 78 |
| 2017 | 95 |
| 2018 | 64 |
| 2019 | 70 |
| 2020 | 68 |
| 2021 | 76 |
| 2022 | 91 |
| 2023 | 86 |
| 2024 | 108 |
| 2025 | 87 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1916–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 85 sources across 44 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 830 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sabine?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Sabine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sabine have the most bearers?
- Sabine is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled sabine.
- How common is Sabine compared with other names?
- In Germany, Sabine is the 33rd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Sabine a male or female name?
- Sabine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Sabine mean?
- Recorded meaning: }. river, US; county, TX, parish, LA
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sabine” — the 33rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.