The name Sabrina is the Latinized form of Habren, the original Welsh name for the River Severn. The origins of the name Habren are uncertrain.
Sabrina is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Sabrina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Sabrina ranks 332. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Sabrina. In the entire USA, approximately 137,565 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sabrina. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Sabrina is the Latinized form of Habren, the original Welsh name for the River Severn. The origins of the name Habren are uncertrain.
It is also the ... romanization of an unrelated Arabic name, صابرينا (ṣābrīnā), from the root 'sabr' for 'patience'.
This was a real surprise! Sabrina is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #52 in the year 1997, when 5,822 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made Sabrina much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sabrina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Sabrina ranked 381 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 757 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Sabrina will remain a universally popular name.
The name Sabrina may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Sabrina is apparently especially popular in Florida. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 514 women in Florida is called Sabrina. In total, that’s 9,545 women who feel addressed when the name Sabrina is shouted loudly across Florida and who ensure that their name makes it to #114 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Sabrina as the answer a total of 137,559 times. This places Sabrina at #254 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Sabrina as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Sabrina has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sabrina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sabrina, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sabrina
Sabrina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
B
R
I
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
B
R
I
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sabrina sounds like this:
