Fabia

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Latin feminine form of the old Roman family name Fabius, said to be a derivative of faba ‘bean’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/fɐβiɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fabia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 73K
  • USUnited States1 in 693K

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)

17,520 people, 2022

Sources
111 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Latin feminine form of the old Roman family name Fabius, said to be a derivative of faba ‘bean’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fabia 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.

Where Fabia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—17,5201 in 12K18KFabia111
IT Italy—≈880 est.≈1 in 71K1Fabia38
DO Dominican Republic#790≈790 est.≈1 in 13K—Fabia14
AR Argentina—≈620 est.≈1 in 73K3Fabia33
US United States—4801 in 693K431Fabia78
CH Switzerland—≈340 est.≈1 in 25K4Fabia24
PT Portugal#994≈200 est.≈1 in 51KlistedFabia32
PY Paraguay—≈190 est.≈1 in 38K—Fabia6

17,520 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 — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fabia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fábia, Fäbiä, Fabià, Fabiá, Fabiå

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Philippines

    Also written Fábia, Fabià, Fâbïâ

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Also written Fábia

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Fábia

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Algeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Fãbïa, Fábia, Fabià

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Fàbia, Fábia, Fabià, Fabiá

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Philippines, Nigeria

    Also written Fábia

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fabia 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 English, A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Fabius.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Féminin de Fabien/Fabian, du latin Fabianus, lié à faba « fève ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Latin feminine form of the old Roman family name Fabius (see FABIO ).

    as a word

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)

5001000150020002500Fabia Eudokia, b. 580Fabia Drake, b. 1904Fabia Borroni, b. 1921Fabia Trabaldo, b. 1972Fabia Mendoza, b. 1986Fabia Mantwill, b. 1993Fabia Hubler, b. 2001Fabia Reinschmidt, b. 2003Fabia Feeken, b. 2005

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)

InformalOlá Fabia,Hi Fabia, (English)

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 60 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Fabia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020274#75,813
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010198#92,719
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000163#102,173
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617

Reference works 3

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 Fabia mean, and where does it come from?
Latin feminine form of the old Roman family name Fabius, said to be a derivative of faba ‘bean’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
How do you pronounce Fabia?
A machine transcription gives /fɐβiɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
Is Fabia a male or female name?
Fabia 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 Fabia?
In the etymology graph, Fabiola is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Fabia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Fabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fabia.
Where is Fabia most common?
Fabia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Fabia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 17,520 people named Fabia in 2022, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Fabia compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Fabia is the 790th most common given name of 44,971 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, “Fabia” — the 790th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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