Fabiola
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fabiola 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: Feminine diminutive of Fabius, a Roman family name linked to faba ‘bean’.
- 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
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine diminutive of Fabius, a Roman family name linked to faba ‘bean’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fabiola is read(measured from records)
Fabiola 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.
- Spanish74%
Latin Fabiola; feminine diminutive of Fabio.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese9.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fabiola in Portuguese.
- English5.6%
queen, Belgium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Fabiola 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fabiola is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Feminine diminutive of Fabius, a Roman family name linked to faba ‘bean’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 accommodate the flood of pilgrims who flocked to Rome, in which she tended the sick as well as accommodating the healthy.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, Diminutivo femminile di Fabio; attestato alla fine del I secolo.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In French, Forme espagnole de Fabienne; du latin, « issue des Fabius » (famille romaine).
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Saint Fabiolab. 400ITsaint
- Fabiola of Belgiumb. 1928ESqueen consort of Belgium (1928-2014)
- Fabiola Gianottib. 1960ITItalian particle physicist and CERN Director-General
- Fabiola Ramosb. 1977VEVenezuelan female table tennis player
- Fabiola Zuluagab. 1979COColombian tennis player
- Fabiola Guajardob. 1988MXMexican actress and model
- Fabiola Beracasa-Beckmanb. 2000VEfilm/TV producer and philanthropist
- Inde Navarretteb. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 2001)
- Princess Éléonore of Belgiumb. 2008BEnot in their usual nameyoungest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- Fabiola SicilyIDactress
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 80 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 57K | #715 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 54K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54K | #539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,440 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 8.2K | #245 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.4K | #174 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 237 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 229 | #539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63 | #1,440 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 53 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 20 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Fabiola mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine diminutive of Fabius, a Roman family name linked to faba ‘bean’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Fabiola have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Fabiola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fabiola.
- Is Fabiola a male or female name?
- Fabiola 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.
- What are other forms of the name Fabiola?
- In the etymology graph, Fabiana and Fábia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Fabia.
- How common is the name Fabiola?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 53,812 people named Fabiola in 2022, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Fabiola compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fabiola is the 573rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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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, “Fabiola” — the 573rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.