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I suppose that it isn't really the same name with two different roots. That would be strange. Sabrina the river got its name long before any English-speakers had ever encountered a prickly pear - in fact, long before there were English people in Britain. My guess would be that if someone named a child Sabrina rather than Sabra but wanted the Israeli reference, then they'd pretty certainly be Jewish themselves. And a child named Sabrina who wasn't in any way connected to Israel would identify with the river, or the character in Milton's Comus.

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I've never met anyone named Sabra, though there used to be a brand of tights (which laddered as quickly as any others) and a chocolate-orange liqueur (very nice) with the name. Both made in Israel.