Fabíola
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fabiolɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fabíola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 44th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Late Latin feminine diminutive form of the old Roman family name Fabius (see Fabia). St Fabiola (d.
- CLChile≈1 in 999(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.2K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 853 (inferred from the name graph)
53,812 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fabiola in US United States, PE Peru, CL Chile and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Late Latin feminine diminutive form of the old Roman family name Fabius (see Fabia). St Fabiola (d. c.400) was aRoman widow who founded the first Western hospital, originally a hostel to accom- modate the flood of pilgrims who flocked to Rome, in which she tended the sick as well as accommodating the healthy.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fabíola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #573 | 53,812 | 1 in 3.9K | 57K | Fabiola | 163 |
| US United States | — | 23,548 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Fabiola | 343 |
| CO Colombia | #312 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 8 | Fabiola | 106 |
| CL Chile | #156 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 999 | 20 | Fabiola | 114 |
| PE Peru | #304 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Fabiola | 99 |
| BO Bolivia | #366 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 853 | — | Fabiola | 56 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 8,190 | 1 in 2.1K | 8.2K | Fabiola | 57 |
| PY Paraguay | #97 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Fabiola | 41 |
| CR Costa Rica | #44 | 4,397 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.4K | Fabiola | 86 |
53,812 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fabíola Imaculada de Oliveirab. 1953BRBrazilian journalist
- Fabíola Cardosob. 1972PTPortuguese teacher, activist and politician
- Fabíola Reipertb. 1973BRBrazilian journalist
- Fabíola Feresb. 2007botanist
- Fabiola CabralBRBrazilian politician
- Fabíola CamposBRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1242-4252
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 57K | #714 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fabíola mean, and where does it come from?
- Late Latin feminine diminutive form of the old Roman family name Fabius (see Fabia). St Fabiola (d. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Fabíola?
- A machine transcription gives /fabiolɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Fabíola a male or female name?
- Fabíola is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Fabíola have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Fabíola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fabiola.
- How common is the name Fabíola?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 53,812 people named Fabíola in 2022, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Fabíola compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fabíola is the 573rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fabíola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fab%C3%ADolaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fabíola” — the 573rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.