Sabrina
Sabrina was given to 956 girls in 2025, #321 among girls’ names; 142,948 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 137,000 Americans named Sabrina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sabrina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sabrina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sabrina is “a female given name from the Celtic languages, in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954).”
/səˈbɹiːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sabrina?
#321 among girls’ names, 2025
Sabrina rose from #353 in 2015 to #321 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.52 to 0.59 per 1,000.
5,823 babies in 1997, the peak
Sabrina peaked in 1997, when 5,823 babies were given it (5,816 girls, #53 among girls’ names). The 956 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 956 | #321 | 0.59 |
| 2024 | 872 | #360 | 0.54 |
| 2023 | 776 | #396 | 0.48 |
| 2022 | 761 | #413 | 0.46 |
| 2021 | 790 | #402 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 804 | #388 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 788 | #392 | 0.47 |
| 2018 | 737 | #428 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 740 | #433 | 0.43 |
| 2016 | 881 | #370 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 926 | #353 | 0.52 |
| 2014 | 1,009 | #333 | 0.56 |
| 2013 | 1,132 | #281 | 0.65 |
| 2012 | 1,191 | #273 | 0.68 |
| 2011 | 1,230 | #261 | 0.70 |
| 2010 | 1,433 | #220 | 0.81 |
| 2009 | 1,512 | #214 | 0.82 |
| 2008 | 1,824 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,729 | #197 | 0.90 |
| 2006 | 1,795 | #196 | 0.94 |
| 2005 | 1,979 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 2,190 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 2003 | 2,398 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 2002 | 2,533 | #135 | 1.4 |
| 2001 | 2,921 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 3,470 | #92 | 1.9 |
| 1999 | 3,650 | #88 | 2.1 |
| 1998 | 4,608 | #68 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5,816 | #53 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 5,774 | #58 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 3,534 | #95 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 3,384 | #97 | 1.9 |
| 1993 | 3,322 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 1992 | 2,949 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 1991 | 2,905 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 1990 | 2,722 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1989 | 2,572 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1988 | 2,437 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 2,543 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 2,313 | #120 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 2,267 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1984 | 2,306 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 1983 | 2,554 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 2,369 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 2,497 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 1980 | 2,779 | #113 | 1.7 |
| 1979 | 2,870 | #106 | 1.8 |
| 1978 | 3,350 | #91 | 2.2 |
| 1977 | 4,305 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 1,855 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1975 | 1,327 | #190 | 0.91 |
| 1974 | 1,325 | #192 | 0.90 |
| 1973 | 1,601 | #173 | 1.1 |
| 1972 | 1,880 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 1971 | 2,418 | #133 | 1.5 |
| 1970 | 3,569 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 1,944 | #166 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 1,638 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 1967 | 2,628 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 1966 | 940 | #275 | 0.56 |
| 1965 | 789 | #320 | 0.45 |
| 1964 | 879 | #314 | 0.46 |
| 1963 | 884 | #314 | 0.46 |
| 1962 | 884 | #315 | 0.45 |
| 1961 | 885 | #308 | 0.44 |
| 1960 | 983 | #294 | 0.49 |
| 1959 | 859 | #316 | 0.42 |
| 1958 | 860 | #309 | 0.43 |
| 1957 | 913 | #301 | 0.45 |
| 1956 | 956 | #281 | 0.48 |
| 1955 | 1,121 | #245 | 0.57 |
| 1954 | 137 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,565 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,556 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,890 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,727 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,047 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sabrina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sabrina has been given almost only to girls: 347 boys in 85 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sabrina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sabrina, and how old are they?
137,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 142,948 Americans ever recorded as Sabrina. The median Sabrina alive today is 34 years old; half are between 26 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 125,167 people named Sabrina (125,019 women and girls, 148 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 134,014 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,860 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 39,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,100 |
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 Sabrina born?
The states with the most babies named Sabrina are California, Florida and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 141 | #237 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 96 | #192 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 95 | #364 | 1.0× |
| New York | 72 | #241 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 37 | #307 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 37 | #228 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 34 | #324 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #334 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 32 | #351 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 28 | #327 | 0.8× |
Where Sabrina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sabrina is most over-represented in Florida: since 1916 it was given 1.6 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 Sabrina 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 147,142 babies since 1880, Sabrina is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 956 of their 961 babies (99%), again the most given.
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 Sabrina
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 Sabrina and names like it
- Compare Sabrina and SabrenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSabrina peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sabrina since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Sabrina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sabrina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.