Entry № 9000 · Latin origin

Sabina Sabina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-BEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Sabine woman"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "sabine woman".

Sabina is the Latin word for a woman of the Sabine people — the Italic tribe whose abduction by the early Romans is recorded in Livy's history. Empress Vibia Sabina (83-136 CE) was the wife of Emperor Hadrian.

Sabina is widely used in Italy, Spain, and Eastern Europe.

Sabine woman. Hadrian's empress.

The name in its native script.

Sabina
Transliteration
Sabina
Pronunciation
/ səˈbiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sabina stands.

Sabina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sabinas before her.

Real people
Empress Vibia Sabina
Wife of Emperor Hadrian.
83 – 136 CE
Saint Sabina
Roman martyr.
d. c. 126 CE
In fiction
Sabina
Common in historical fiction.

Names connected to Sabina.

The number behind Sabina.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sabina reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.