Given name
Sabrina
“a legendary princess”
Sabrina is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “a legendary princess.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a legendary princess.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sabrina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 142,948
- 347 boys · 142,601 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 5,823 babies
- 2025
- 956
- #321 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +5%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 956 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 321 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 5.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 5,816 in 1997. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (141). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 125,167 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sabrina’s family of names
In English usage, Sabrina has a diminutive in BRI. In French usage, Sabrina has a conventional equivalent in the English form Sabina. Sabrina has a related form in Sabrena.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sabrina has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its English roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 30
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Sabreenvariant
- Sabrinvariant
- Bridiminutive · English
- Brinadiminutive · Slovene, English
- Sabrynavariant
- Sabreanavariant
- Subrinavariant
- Sabriniavariant
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- Sabrenavariant
- Sabrinevariant · French
- Sabrienavariant
- Sabreenavariant
- Sabrinnavariant
- Sabrinahvariant
- Shabrinavariant · Indonesian
- Sabbrinalikely variant
- 'Brinadiminutive · English
- Sabclipped form · English
- Sabrynahvariant
- Sebreevariant
- Sabriniahvariant
- Sabrinasvariant
- Sabrenevariant
- Sabreanevariant
- Sabreenahvariant
- Sabreanahvariant
- Sabrynnavariant
- Sabreenevariant
- Sabrynevariant
- Sabreinavariant
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sabrina
- Sabrina CarpenterAmerican singer-songwriter and actress (born 1999)
- Sabrina FerilliItalian actress (born 1964)
- Sabrina SalernoItalian singer, actress and model (born 1968)
- Sabrina PasterskiAmerican theoretical physicistborn 1993
- Sabrina IonescuAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Sabrina D'AngeloCanadian soccer playerborn 1993
- Sabrina ImpacciatoreItalian actressborn 1968
- Sabrina OuazaniFrench actressborn 1988
- Sabrina LloydAmerican actressborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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