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[[Image:Sabbatini-mapa3.gif|thumb|200px|right|Distribution of the Sabbatini surname in Italy]]
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'''Sabbatini''', with its variations '''Sabbatino''' (plural form thereof), '''Sabbadin''', '''Sabbadino''' and '''Sabbadini''', is a family name of [[Italian language|Italian]] origin. Other variants use one ''b'' only, such as '''Sabatini''', '''Sabatino''', '''Sabadin''', '''Sabadini''' and '''Sabadino''' and are also very common names in Italy. Variations with a double ''t'' (particularly in foreign countries where Italians emigrated to), such as in '''Sabattini''' and '''Sabbattini''', also exist. Still rarer variations are ''Sabbatello'', ''Sabbatiello'', ''Sabbatella'', ''Sabbatinella'', ''Sabbatucci'' and ''Zabbatini'', all having also a version with a single ''b''. During the [[Roman Empire]] time, it existed in the '''Sabbatinus''' form. Variations of these names in Latin started to appear already in the [[8th century]].
Sabbatini and Sabatini have different pronunciations in Italian, since the double b requires a short [[labial stop]] between them. The same happens with Sabattini and Sabatini.
The name is a [[patronymic]], i.e., it originated from the name of an ascendant person, and it is related to ''sabato'', Italian for Saturday, indirectly from [[shabbat]] (rest), the weekly day of rest [[holiday]] for several [[religion]]s, probably because the person was born in a Saturday. Due to the reference to the [[Jewish]] holiday, it has been speculated that people with this surname were [[New Christian]]s or [[marrano]]s (christianized Jews in the medieval times), but this is so far unsubstantiated. What is known for sure is that gentile families used to give the name Sabbato or Sabbatin to children who were born on Saturdays, as they used also Domenico to baptize children born on Sundays. Sabbatini is therefore the plural form used to name the descendants of someone who was named Sabbatin, Sabbatino or Sabbato.
Records indicate that the specific Sabbatini surname appeared for the first time in a noble family in [[Bologna]], in the form Sabbadini. Since the [[13th century]] it is a very specific surname of the region of [[Marche]]. Today, it is present also in the [[Abruzzo]] region (mainly as Sabatini, but also as Sabatino, Sabatini and Sabbatini) and in the [[Campania]] region, around [[Naples]] (where the more rare surname Sabbatino is present).
Due to the strong [[immigration]] of Italians in the late 19th century and early 20th century, the Sabbatini family name and its variations are strongly present in [[Brazil]] (mostly in the Southern and Southeastern regions, specially in the cities of [[Campinas]] and [[Valinhos]]), [[Uruguay]], [[Argentina]], [[Chile]], [[Australia]] and the [[USA]] (with higher concentrations in the states of [[New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Tennessee]], [[Missouri]] and [[California]]).
==See also==
* [[Sabbatarianism]]
==External links==
* [http://www.sabbatini.com Home Page of the Sabbatini family]
* [http://www.sabbatini.com/marcelo/sabbatini.htm The Great Sabbatini Encyclopedia]. In Portuguese.
* [http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?html=b&ln=Sabbatini&sourcecode=13304 The Sabbatini surname in the USA]. Ancestry.com (paid access).
[[Category:Italian surnames]]