It hasn't been anywhere on the SS rank list since the 1920s.
Too obscure?
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I love it, i have a cousin named Sabine (German) but pronounced the same. However I think Americans might find it uncommon or think it’s Sabrina. That said, I think it’s easy to pronounce and spell which I always think is the best
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I am “meh” on it because it looks too much like a typo of Sabrina (one of my favorite names). I do like Sabine though.
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I misread it as Sabrina which I like. I also like Sabina.
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I knew a Sabine (Swedish) which I prefer. That said I think there are lots of bean teasing/jokes in the future.
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I like it. I know a Sabine from Germany. Her husband calls her Bine which I think is cute.
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I agree with PPs. I would think it was a typo of Sabrina. I do think Sabine is really cute.
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I worked with a woman named Sabina and no one had an issue pronouncing it. I'm guessing she probably had some confusion with Sabrina but I think it is a cute name.
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Like pp's, this looks like Sabrina gone wrong to me.
Sabine feels completely different to me, pretty ethnic/culturally specific--not that that is a bad thing.
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I am pretty sure Sabine in German is pronounced sah-BEE-nah. I like that pronunciation but suspect it would be misspelled/mispronounced in English.
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@ElbieKay: oh the only woman I ever knew with that name was a German co-worker who did not (at least at work) pronounce the "ah" at the end--it just ended in the "een" sound. Maybe she American-ized it for simplicity.
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@LCTBQE: I also knew a German Sabine who pronounced it with no A (sah-BEEN). Or heck maybe I was mispronouncing it in the couple years I knew her!
I like Sabina ok but I feel like people would think it’s Sabrina or Sabine a lot and that would be really hard.
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@Foodnerd81: I always wonder why people don't correct a mispronunciation! but maybe she just didn't do the "ah" sound? This is surely just a regional thing, but I'm from Texas and my strong association with that name is with the Sabine River in TX/Louisiana, which is pronounced the way we're talking about. ETA sorry for the slight thread-jack !
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My 4 yr old has a classmate named Sabina - cute name, no issues with pronounciation or mixups with Sabrina.
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I think I prefer Sabine (Sah-Been) or Sabrina.
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I also prefer Sabine or Sabrina . But even common names get confused so if you love Sabina go for it! I’m an Anna and if I had a nickel for every Ana, ann, Anne, Hannah, Diana I ever got....
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@LCTBQE: @Foodnerd81: My husband is the one who told me that about the German Sabine pronunciation. His mom was born in German and he has a bunch of German relatives and studied German in high school. He is actually horrible at speaking German but he has an excellent accent, and he generally knows how things are pronounced phonetically even though he barely remembers any vocabulary words!
But he is not exactly an authoritative source so who knows.
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@ElbieKay: I would assume it is pronounced with the “nah” at the end in German. We lived in a German-speaking country for 5 years and all the similar names that ended in E were pronounced that way. My son had a Marlene in his class last year and it was pronounced Mar-len-uh, I thought it sounded so pretty that way. A Louise was pronounced more like Louisa. As for the question, I think I prefer Sabine (sah-been).
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@lamariniere: Thanks, that was my thought process too, but I don't know much about German.
I like how Sabine looks but the Sabina pronunciation flows better with our last name. And I think it will be mispronounced more in the U.S. if we spell it with the e.
I like the gesture to my husband's German heritage which is one reason I like the name. I find that I don't especially like very many traditional German names aesthetically.
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I like it, but my girl name list had things like Esme, Astrid, Desre, etc on it.
I feel like it would get mispronounced and misspelled a ton, which isn't the complete end of the world, but can be annoying. My name is like that and it's become hilarious to me, but as a kid, it was annoying!
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Oh also, the only Sabrina I have known personally was this SUPER meek girl in elementary school. She was perfectly nice but I don't want meek girls. So that name never even occurred to me as an option!
Maybe I should stop bothering with looking for a names less popular than my first two choices. Sigh.
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To me it just makes me think of the the belgium airline company Sabena. I wouldnt mind Sabrina though
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@ElbieKay: what are your first two choices?
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@gotkimchi: Caroline and Amelia. Amelia is ranked 11!
I am having identical twin girls so I need two names.
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@ElbieKay: I love both of those! And I have a 4 and 2yo and have never run across one of those if that makes you feel better
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@ElbieKay: Sabina is my doctors name. I voted ‘love it’, but it’s definitely a name that grew on me over time.
When I first heard it I didn’t like it at all and kept saying ‘Sabrina’... like the teenage witch.
But, now that I’m ‘used’ to it, I really like it.
My daughters name is the same LOL, when I first heard it I hated it, now I love it!
I think Sabina is unusual, but not too obscure. -
I have an aunt with this name (spelled this way) - and she's Indian, not German.
I do think you'll have to correct people who assume it's Sabrina, but like anything else, if they're people you interact with regularly, they'll learn
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I like Sabine with an E, and Sabrina.
Sabina is pretty too, but I think your girl would have a lifetime of correcting people that her name is not Sabrina.
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There is a Sabine at my LO's school; I think I prefer Sabine to Sabina. I'm like in between a meh and like?
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i absolutely love it. I also love the name "Sabia" (pronounced sahb - bee - uh"
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Oh man... LOs favorite daycare teacher is named Sabine. I didn't know about the pronunciation. I assumed they spelled her name wrong on the teacher form and have written Sabina on everything I've ever given her... she never corrected me *facepalm*
I think Sabina is pretty, I don't think it makes a huge difference which way you spell it.
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