Sabrina

Where Sabrina comes from

The dictionaries list Sabrina as a given name — a female given name from the Celtic languages, in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954) — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Celtic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Sabrina Ferilli born
    Italian actress
  3. 1997
    Peak, #53
    5,816 babies named Sabrina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1999
    Sabrina Carpenter born
    American singer-songwriter and actress
  5. 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

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.