Sabina - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 3 syll. sa-bi-na, sab-ina ] The girl name Sabina is pronounced SahBIYNah ^KEY. Sabina has its origins in the Latin language. It is used largely in Czech, English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slavic, and Spanish. The name Sabina means 'Sabine woman; catlike'. An old form of the name is Sabina (Latin). The name is derived from the Sabines, the name of the Italic tribe who lived in ancient Italy before the Romans took over their land and captured and married their women; the women later sucessfully prevented warfare between the returning Sabine men and the Romans. Sabine women were known to be slender and feminine; thus the word 'Sabine' was later associated with 'catlike' in the late 19th century. The name was borne by two Roman empresses, Poppaea Sabina (30-65), the second wife of Nero, and Vibia Sabina (86-137), the wife of Hadrian. It was also borne by Saint Sabina (-126), who was martyred in Rome. The first name was taken up by English speakers in the 17th century and it saw a modest revival in the 19th century. The name Sabina is used as an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic Sadhbh. Sabina is the feminine version of the Italian Sabino.

Forms of Sabina include the Polish Sabcia, the English Sabeen, the English Sabia, the English Sabin, the Finnish, French, German, and Latvian Sabine, the Polish Sabinka, the Polish Sabka, the Italian and Russian Savina, the Russian Savya, and the English Zabina. Other forms of the name include the Czech and Italian short form Bina and the English spelling variant Sabena.

Sabina is rare as a baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1916, 0.009% of baby girls were named Sabina. It had a ranking of #703 then. The baby name has slipped in popularity since then, and is currently of only sporadic use. Out of all girl names in its family, Sabina was nevertheless the most regularly used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Sabina include the English Sabena, the English Saphron, the English Savana, the English Savanah, the English Savanha, the English Savanna, the English Savannah, the English Savannha, the English Savhanna, the Italian and Russian Savina, the English Shavone, the Indian Shobhana, the Irish Siavon, the English Siobahna, the Irish Siobhian, the Scottish and Irish Siubhan, the Scandinavian Svenia, the English Sabeen, the English Sabin, and the Finnish, French, German, and Latvian Sabine.

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