Sabin
Barely a presence in Poland: around 80 people carry it, almost all men, and no boys have been given it in years. A Latin name at root, for someone from the Sabine people, and the male counterpart to the far more common Sabina.
Sabin Pronunciation
Sabin is pronounced SAH-been (/ˈsabin/).
What Sabin means
Where Sabin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sabin comes from Latin, from Sabinus, an adjective meaning "belonging to the Sabines." The Sabini were an Italic people who lived in the hills northeast of Rome. Roman writers made them ancestors and told the old story of the Sabine women taken into the new city. The name reports something factual about a person: from the Sabine people. The origin is that plain.
In the calendar the name travels mostly through its cross-gender form, Sabina, which Polish parents choose far more often than the masculine Sabin. Several early saints named Sabinus and Sabina carried it into the Christian record, and that is how it reached Poland. A boy called Sabin on a class register stands out now, closer to the Roman root than to any fashion.
Sabin keeps its meaning close to the surface. It points back to a tribe, the Sabini, and to a Latin word for belonging to them.
When Sabin celebrates name day
Sabin appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Sabin
1 in 266827 men in Poland is named Sabin. 82 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3922 among male names.
Sabin as a middle name
Sabin is a first name for 82 men in Poland and a middle name for another 20, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2020th, between Romero (20) and Samer (20).
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#2018 Rochus20
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#2019 Romero20
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#2020 Sabin20
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#2021 Samer20
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#2022 Sang20