Fabio
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Latin Fabius; Roman gens name, probably from faba, “bean”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɐβiu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fabio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 274(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 424
- PTPortugal≈1 in 719
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 274 (inferred from the name graph)
499,773 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Latin Fabius; Roman gens name, probably from faba, “bean”.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fabio is read(measured from records)
Fabio is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fabio in Portuguese.
- Spanish21%
Latin Fabius; Roman gens name, probably from faba, “bean”.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Italian8.3%
dal latino Fabius, nome gentilizio forse da faba 'fava'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Nome di una delle più antiche genti romane; forse legato alla coltivazione delle fave.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Xomi di una delle pii1 siitiche genti romane. 5 ~ . condo gli etimologisti romani, dalla coltivazione d<.lle fave; m a C'& luogo a dubbio. S. Fabio, martire. 17 maggio. Cogn. Vabi, Fabietti. Favi, forsc il friulano Faretti. DimiuuLivo feniminile Fabiola (fine secolo I-). 2 i diceinbre.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fabio 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 | #66 | 499,773 | 1 in 424 | 548K | Fabio | 247 |
| IT Italy | #118 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 274 | 224 | Fabio | 215 |
| CO Colombia | #153 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 914 | 62 | Fabio | 166 |
| AR Argentina | #351 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 783 | Fabio | 126 |
| PT Portugal | #61 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | listed | Fabio | 152 |
| PY Paraguay | #153 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 728 | — | Fabio | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | #96 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 853 | 71 | Fabio | 121 |
499,773 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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)
Fabio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Latin Fabius, name of a Roman family whose members were prominent in republican Rome.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
From the Roman family name Fabius. Feminine form: Fabia.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Alexander VIIb. 1599ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
- Fabio Testib. 1941ITItalian actor
- Fabio Capellob. 1946ITItalian association football manager
- Fabio Cianchettib. 1952ITItalian director and cinematographer
- Fabio Lanzonib. 1959ITItalian model, author and actor (born 1959)
- Fabio Luisib. 1959ITItalian conductor
- Fabio Cannavarob. 1973ITItalian association football player and manager
- Fabio Pecchiab. 1973ITItalian association football player and manager
- Fabio Quagliarellab. 1983ITItalian association football player (born 1983)
- Fábio Coentrãob. 1988PTPortuguese footballer
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 107 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 548K | #60 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 500K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 498K | #40 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #40 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 224 | #109 |
| CH Switzerland | FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung | 2024 | 71 | #101 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 62 | #64 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 26 | #1,401 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Fabio mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Fabius; Roman gens name, probably from faba, “bean”. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How common is the name Fabio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 499,773 people named Fabio in 2022, about 1 in 424 residents.
- How common is Fabio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fabio is the 66th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Fabio?
- A machine transcription gives /fɐβiu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Fabio a male or female name?
- Fabio is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Fabio?
- In the etymology graph, Fabiana, Fabiano and Fabián are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fabio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 500 thousand people named Fabio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fabio.
What do you want to know about Fabio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fabioThe 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, “Fabio” — the 66th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.