Sabrina

Where Sabrina comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sabrina.

  • Celtic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Sabrina through the years
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Around this time: Sabrina
    Film, 1954 · Source
    “Its popularity rose, at first in the United States, following the release of the film Sabrina (1954), a romantic drama-comedy based on Samuel Taylor's Sabrina Fair, in which the protagonist Sabrina Fairchild was played by Audrey Hepburn.”
  3. 1964
    Sabrina Ferilli born
    Italian actress
  4. 1997
    Peak, #53
    5,816 babies named Sabrina, the most in any year.
  5. 1999
    Sabrina Carpenter born
    American singer-songwriter and actress
  6. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #135.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Celtic languages, in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954).
Namesakes
  • Sabrina Carpenter · American singer-songwriter and actress, born 1999
  • Sabrina Ferilli · Italian actress, born 1964
  • Sabrina Salerno · Italian singer, actress and model, born 1968
  • Sabrina Pasterski · American theoretical physicist, born 1993
  • Sabrina Bryan · American singer, born 1984

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