Entry № 9006 · Celtic origin

Sabrina Sabrina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-BREE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"From the river Severn"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Celtic/Latin)

A name that means "from the river severn".

Sabrina is the Latin name of the River Severn in Britain — and of the legendary nymph who drowned in it. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sabrina was the daughter of a British king, drowned by her stepmother and transformed into the spirit of the river.

Today it sits in the U.S. top 200.

From the river Severn — a Celtic name.

The name in its native script.

Sabrina
Transliteration
Sabrina
Pronunciation
/ səˈbriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sabrina stands.

Sabrina 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.

Sabrinas before her.

Real people
Sabrina Carpenter
American singer and actress.
born 1999
In fiction
Sabrina Spellman
Heroine of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
1996 onward

Names connected to Sabrina.

The number behind Sabrina.

1

The Leader

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