Sabrina?

[Beetie1]

32 weeks and still not settled on names and new ones popping up.

What is everyone's thoughts on the name Sabrina? I know the association with the comic/tv witch character but is this problematic? It has Welsh links which ticks boxes for us.

Goddess of the River Severn.

My cousin’s daughter.

I’ve no idea what the reference is to tv programmes.

Sabine and Sabina are nice too.

I like Sabrina. I don't know the TV reference so that association wouldn't occur to me.

It does make me think ‘the teenage witch’ but I was a 90s child.

I like it, but wouldn't because of 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'.

Might but bother you though, in which case go for it.

I really like it.

And it's the Goddess of the River Severn so makes me think of home!

Yes but their generation won’t have heard of it. It’s a nice name.

Lovely, especially if there is a Shropshire connection.

@AverageMummy

'The chilling adventures of Sabrina' is a current Netflix show. I think they're doing another season.

Tbh, for me it's more the bad luck and satanic stuff that befalls the character that would put me off, but I'm weird like that.

Sabrina wouldn't be my choice tbh but I like it more than Mabel, Amelia, Gracie, Margot... And all the other "old ladies" names that have recently come back into fashion. I heard of a newborn called Hilda this week. I guess any name goes these days 🤷

It makes me think of the teenage witch but I like it! And kids won’t get that reference anyway.

Even the current Netflix show will be totally out of date by the time kids born today are old enough to watch it.

@RedCowboyBoots oops I’d never heard of that show - I was referring to Sabrina the teenage witch !

Love

Those who don’t think automatically of the teenage witch ... how?!

And anyway yes I think of the witch but I still like the name. Our children won’t know that show.

It will make anyone born before 2000 think of the teenage witch but I don’t think this generation will make the link.

Those who don’t think automatically of the teenage witch ... how?!

Because I don't watch TV much! I've heard of the show, but it's not the first thing that came to mind. However, Sabrina Duncan, of the original Charlie's Angels, did.

@averagemummy it's good- you should watch it. Very dark though, especially in comparison to the original.

It starts on the lead up to Sabrina's sixteenth birthday when she's expected to sign her name in the book of the beast and in doing so commit her soul to Satan and promise to do his bidding when asked. Similar characters, but the plot is pretty much completely different.

Worth a watch.

Sorry for the derail, OP.

Lovely name.

And all the other "old ladies" names that have recently come back into fashion. I heard of a newborn called Hilda this week. I guess any name goes these days

how does that make any sense?!

Sabrina is really lovely. And Sabrina is a lovely film. And people seem to find links between all sorts of names (Sawyer sounds too much like sour milk is one that sticks in my mind) so I wouldn't worry about it. She probably isn't going to be a teenage witch.

@TwoPupsandaHamster I never thought of it as an 'old lady' name. Just one not often used.

@RedCowboyBoots I have watched the new Sabrina show - and loved it and would recommend it too...

I don't like the name because of it though. I just think it's a classic name that everyone knows how to spell and pronounce yet isn't widely used.

Love it!

I like it - it's not an uncommon name for South Asian girls if my school was anything to go by. I think it's very pretty.

There was a girl in my school called Sabrina, and we were in high school in the very early 00s so the TV show was very well known.
After the first week or so, the joke got old and she just became Sabrina.

She didn't like it as there wasn't a nickname which she liked so she always went by the full version

Always loved it!