Think we found our name ... Sabine ... but I'd like to check how you'd pronounce it

[edeluna]

Expecting a girl in a few weeks. The name in the lead right now is Sabine.

I love it but I'm just a little concerned about whether its correct pronunciation would be baffling to anyone here in the UK. I'm not sure if people here are familiar with the name at all.

It's pronounced zaBEEna and comes from Italian; it is a familiar name in German and French.

Both Sabine and Sabina are acceptable spellings, though we prefer the former. However, I don't want her to have to constantly correct people's pronunciation. So if it seems likely that people might call
her saBEAN or something like that, maybe we go with the spelling ending in -a.

Grateful for any thoughts on this one!

I have a couple of friends with names with same ending issue as Sabine - they all put the a on the end after much agonising.

personally i would pronounce sabine the french way

we have similar issue with our dc french names with silent letters at the end. their german family don't get that they are silent despite reminding them! If they decide to live in germany when they are older i guess they will have to live with it!

Sab-bee-nuh.

Put the a on the end, please.

Zombie thread - little Sabine is about three now!

The assistant at my daughter's kindergarten was called Sabine spelled like that but pronounced SabEEna. Of course everyone else called her SaBEEN which is the French way of pronouncing it. Think it drove her slightly mad, understandably. I'd say if you want to pronounce it as Sabina then that is how you should spell it.

Ruthless, i got the earworm too, "Them women were sobbin sobbin sobbin up to their ears"!

Sabine (Sabeen) is a beautiful name. Most names are pronounced fed differently in other languages, mine is, so when in UK and France she'll be Sabeen and in Germany she'll be Zabeena.