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Character Name

Sabrina

Meaning — From the Latinized form of Hafren, the ancient Welsh name for the River Severn, Britain's longest river. The Roman geographer Tacitus recorded the river's Latin name as Sabrina. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Sabrina was a drowned princess who became the river goddess of the Severn, making the name one of the oldest named female figures in British legend.·Latin origin·Female·sah-BREE-nah

Sabrina Sabrina is one of the oldest named female figures in British legend — a river goddess murdered and drowned who became the animating spirit of Britain's mightiest river. Milton's Sabrina possesses the particular power of innocence preserved: the guardian who intercedes for the vulnerable against supernatural corruption. The name carries the liminal quality of water itself, the boundary between worlds, and suits characters who move between registers of reality that others experience separately.

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FantasyMythologyHistorical FictionLiterary FictionRomance

Famous characters named Sabrina

Sabrina

Comus John Milton

The river goddess invoked to free the Lady from Comus's enchantment, representing the protective power of chastity and natural virtue in Milton's masque.

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch George Gladir / Dan DeCarlo

The half-witch teenager who must navigate the competing demands of her mortal and magical worlds, a contemporary continuation of the name's supernatural legacy.


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SabrinaSabrynaSebrina

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