Sabine
Sabine was given to 87 girls in 2025, #2,151 among girls’ names; 3,387 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,290 Americans named Sabine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sabine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sabine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sabine is “a female given name.”
From the Latin saint’s name Sabina.
/səˈbiːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sabine?
#2,151 among girls’ names, 2025
Sabine fell from #2,075 in 2015 to #2,151 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 53.2 to 54.1 per million.
108 babies in 2007, the peak
Sabine peaked in 2007, when 108 girls were given it, #1,922 among girls’ names. The 87 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,151 | 54.1 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,865 | 66.7 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,206 | 53.6 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,120 | 55.5 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,381 | 46.3 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,546 | 42.1 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,532 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,706 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,071 | 55.0 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,409 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,075 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 97 | #2,033 | 54.3 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,092 | 52.4 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,952 | 57.4 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,582 | 39.8 |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,041 | 55.1 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,975 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,050 | 53.4 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,922 | 56.2 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,124 | 48.4 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,083 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,640 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,296 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,107 | 45.1 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,319 | 38.3 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,696 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,232 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,559 | 30.6 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,129 | 37.9 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,213 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,199 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,652 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,486 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,648 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,606 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,090 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,983 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,989 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,835 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,254 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,709 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,304 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,782 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,732 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,825 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,052 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,379 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,607 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,153 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,077 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,032 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,742 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,730 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,501 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,365 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,037 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,048 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,528 | 15.2 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,261 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,141 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,393 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,460 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,598 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,650 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,572 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,878 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,739 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,352 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,952 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,726 | 2.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,744 | 4.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,046 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sabine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sabine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sabine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sabine, and how old are they?
3,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,387 Americans ever recorded as Sabine. The median Sabine alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 6,490 people named Sabine (6,465 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,817 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 412 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 405 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sabine born?
The states with the most babies named Sabine are California, Texas and Illinois, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,640 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,590 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,377 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,160 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,369 | 2.2× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #988 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,661 | 0.0× |
Where Sabine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sabine is most over-represented in New York: since 1916 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sabine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,557 babies since 1880, Sabine is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 155 babies (56%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sabine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sabine and names like it
- Compare Sabine and SabinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSabine peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sabine since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Sabine.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sabine alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.