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Sabreena

Feminine · “A spelling of Sabrina”

1968high 1996
Rare todaygiven to only a few children a year
rare

Sabreena is Sabrina with a double e, a spelling that makes the long vowel plain. Sabrina has named a neckline, a teenage witch and an Audrey Hepburn film, and the dress that made the neckline famous has a disputed author.

How old is the name Sabreena?

Sabreena first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Sabreena alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 600 people named Sabreena are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Sabreena most popular?

Sabreena peaked in 1996, reaching #2901 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Sabreena

In the 1954 film Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn wore a dress with a boat-shaped neckline running from shoulder to shoulder, and the style has been called the Sabrina neckline ever since; Edith Head won the Academy Award for the film's costumes, though the most famous dresses were designed by Hubert de Givenchy, who was not credited. In 1962 Archie Comics introduced Sabrina the Teenage Witch in a short backup story, and she went on to cartoons and a long-running television series. Sabreena is one of the spellings American families used in the late twentieth century.

Meaning

A spelling of Sabrina, the Latin name of the river Severn

Sabrina is the Roman name for the Severn, the longest river in Britain.

How the name formed

  1. Sabrina
  2. Sabreena

Related forms: Sabrina · Hafren · Sabrina

Pronouncing Sabreena

suh-BREE-nuh

Three syllables with the stress on the second, like Sabrina.

Nicknames for Sabreena

Moderate

BreeInformal, from the middle of the name
SabbyAn informal pet form
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1968–20254121041519682020

US babies named Sabreena per year from 1968 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#29011960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1968
Most girls named
199641 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2901reached in 1996
Change vs 2019
−37.5%5 in 2020, from 8
Sabreena sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1996, with 41 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Sabreena in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Sabrina in English — spelling variant
  • Hafren in Welsh — related form
  • Sabrina in Italian — same name

Sabreenas among us

600

people named Sabreena are estimated to be alive in the US today

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

Fashion outlook

Sabreena sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.

Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Sounds exactly like Sabrina, a name everyone knows.
  • The double e makes the pronunciation unmistakable.
  • Comes with Bree as a ready short form.
What to consider
  • Almost everyone will write Sabrina.
  • The teenage witch is the association many children will reach for.
  • Some will read the double e as a spelling slip.

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Frequently asked

How many Sabreenas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Sabreena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Sabreena in 2025?
Sabreena is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
Will my child share the name Sabreena with classmates?
Sabreena will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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