Thoughts on Sabine?

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My husband and I are leaning towards ‘French’ girl names as his family is from a country in the Middle East with deep French influence. He really loves Sabine (sah-been), and I like it a lot as well, but I’m wondering if it’s a little TOO uncommon here in the US? Neither of us have ever met a Sabine. Too similar to the name Sabrina?

Genevieve is a very, very close second and a name I have loved long before we found out we were expecting. So torn!

We won’t be sharing the name until the baby is born but I can’t fight the urge to solicit feedback, lol

Love Sabine, so beautiful and chic. In the UK at least Genevieve is a little more commonly used. Sabine unusual but a known French name. I think it’s perfect.

Aw, she could be ‘Beenie’ for a cute baby nickname!

Sabine is adorable for a little girl and yet very appropriate for a dignified adult woman, we need more Sabines imo.

tres chic !

I think Sabine will be pronounced more correctly although some may pronounce it sa-been-a. I think the French pronunciation of Genevieve, Jen-a-vee-ev is much nicer than Jen-a-veeve.

I think Sabine is really lovely especially with her heritage.

To add, Sabrine (pronounced Sah-breen) is a variant to the more commonly used Sabrina, in case you prefer that.

Sabine is lovely, very pretty!

I know a Sabine who is French.

To me I immediately think of Rape of the Sabine Women, so Genevieve is a much better choice imo. With the French pronunciation Genevieve is a really pretty name.

Agree re 'rape of the Sabine women"

I know a Sabine, always thought it was a cool name.

Beautiful name

I went to with a Sabine, lovely name. Never met another but is it beautiful.

I think it's lovely. I also love Delphine.and Amelie.
Genevieve turns into Jenny; I know a few.

I thing you will get a mixture of pronunciations. Rather than sah-been, you'll likely get sa-been, suh-been or (horribly) say-bine.

We have a Sabina on the Polish side of my family, which I like.

French names tend to sound beautiful with a french accent, but not so much in an English one!

You won't get the French pronunciation of Geneviève and I don't like the Jennuh-veev pronunciation.

Sabine is lovely.
The only potential problem with it is that it is zab-een-uh in Germany. You're not in Germany

Love it! Also love Genevieve! To be honest my daughter has a name which is not frequently heard but known by everyone and it still gets spoonarised all the time into a different name. So you can’t really make a judgement based on the fact that she might occasionally get called Sabrina because you could call her Sara and that might happen! 😂

I’m afraid I also think of the Sabine women.

Genevieve is a lovely name (and just reminds me of an old car)!

I have known two women with the name Sabina which I think is also a pretty alternative.

Beautiful name with an unpleasant association, unfortunately.

My doctor, when I was young, had a lovely daughter called Sabine.

Love Sabine. She is one of the main characters in Mr Bean's Holiday - but she's very sweet and lovely, so not a bad association. (You can see that my cultural roots don't go back to classic times!)

Yup. Rape of the Sabine Women. Subject of much art in many galleries.

Genevieve might get mixed up with Jennifer or Guinevere.

I like Sabine, I think Genevieve will get shortened to Jenny/Gen imo (which are also nice names!)

FYI Sabine is also a common name in Germany, so many people will pronounce it that way, ie. sounding the -e at the end (Sa-Bee-Nu).