Fabré
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fabré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In France it is the 89th most common surname. Recorded meaning: French occupational surname meaning "smith" or "ironworker," variant of Faber and Favre, all from Latin faber (“craftsman”).
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 123K
- UYUruguay1 in 4.1K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 323 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Fabre in FR France, US United States, PH Philippines and 1 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)
French occupational surname meaning "smith" or "ironworker," variant of Faber and Favre, all from Latin faber (“craftsman”).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fabré 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Fabre | 5 |
| FR France | #89 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 3.1K | Fabre | 323 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Fabre | 18 |
| US United States | — | 2,702 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Fabre | 208 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,443 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 830 | 1 in 4.1K | 830 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Joan Fabré Oliverb. 1868ESSpanish writer (1868-1951)
- Jaume Cabré i Fabréb. 1947ESSpanish writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Fabré mean, and where does it come from?
- French occupational surname meaning "smith" or "ironworker," variant of Faber and Favre, all from Latin faber (“craftsman”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Fabré have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Fabré in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fabre.
- How common is the name Fabré?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,702 people named Fabré in 2010, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
- How common is Fabré compared with other names?
- In France, Fabré is the 89th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fabr%C3%A9The 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, “Fabré” — the 89th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.