Fabra
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/faβɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fabra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 17K
- ARArgentina1 in 256K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,972 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fabra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 2,972 | 1 in 17K | 3K | Fabra | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 2,224 | 1 in 1.5K | 2.2K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 264 | 1 in 802K | 264 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 178 | 1 in 256K | 178 | — | — |
| US United States | 113 | 1 in 2.9M | 121 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
2,972 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fabra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, inflection of faber:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Camil Fabra i Fontanillsb. 1833ESCatalan businessperson and politician (1833-1902)
- Nilo Fabrab. 1843ESSpanish writer and journalist (1843–1903)
- Pompeu Fabrab. 1868ESCatalan linguist (1868–1948)
- Ferdinand Fabrab. 1906DEGerman association football player (1906-2007)
- Ignazio Fabrab. 1930ITItalian amateur wrestler (1930–2008)
- Carlos Fabrab. 1945ESSpanish politician and businessperson
- Alberto Fabra Partb. 1964ESSpanish politician
- Andrea Fabrab. 1973ESSpanish politician
- Belén Fabrab. 1977ESSpanish actress
- Frank Fabrab. 1991COColombian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3K | #1,721 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,721 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 264 | #29,329 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 178 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Fabra?
- A machine transcription gives /faβɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Fabra have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Fabra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fabra.
- Where is Fabra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fabra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fabra?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,972 people named Fabra, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fabra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fabraThe 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, “Fabra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.