Sabrina
From the Latin, carried down from the name of Britain's river Severn. In Poland it stays rare, holding a place inside the top 1,000 girls' names while most people here have never met one.
Sabrina Pronunciation
Sabrina is pronounced sahb-REE-nah (/sabˈrina/).
What Sabrina means
Where Sabrina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sabrina comes from Latin, the Roman name for the river now called the Severn, which runs along the old boundary between Wales and England. Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in the twelfth century, gave the water a person: a girl named Sabrina drowned in its current and became its spirit. John Milton borrowed her for his masque Comus in 1634, where Sabrina rises from the river to free a trapped maiden. The name reached English readers as a figure of legend before it belonged to real children.
The Polish gloss reads "mieszkanka pogranicza", an inhabitant of the borderland. That fits the geography. The Severn marked a frontier, and the name keeps that river with it.
On a Polish class register today, Sabrina sits among names of plainer Slavic stock. It arrived late and from abroad. Its sense stays literal: from the river Severn.
When Sabrina celebrates name day
Sabrina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 29 January.
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 Sabrina
1 in 16242 women in Poland is named Sabrina. 1,388 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #828 among female names.
Sabrina's popularity over time
13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #643 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2018.
Where Sabrina is most popular
Sabrina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 117% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+80%) and Masovian (+61%). It is least common in Silesian and Pomeranian, 50% and 23% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian6 girls born+117%
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Łódź4 girls born+80%
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Masovian10 girls born+61%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born+58%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+35%
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Lublin2 girls born+11%
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Greater Poland4 girls born+6%
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Lesser Poland4 girls born0%
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Pomeranian2 girls born−23%
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Silesian2 girls born−50%
Sabrina as a middle name
Sabrina is a first name for 1,388 women in Poland and a middle name for another 353, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 365th, between Bogdana (354) and Alicia (349).
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#363 Rosa355
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#364 Bogdana354
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#365 Sabrina353
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#366 Alicia349
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#367 Arletta341