Fabia

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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 name29K records spelled Fabia18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Fábia, Fàbia, Faebïae, Fabiã, Fäbïä

• French given name1.6K records spelled Fabia21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Fabián, Fábia, Fabiàn, Fábián, Fabià

• Italian given name1.3K records spelled Fabia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, Spain

  Also written Fábia

• Indonesian given name733 records spelled Fabia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Peru

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Fábia

• Arabic given name489 records spelled Fabia5 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Fãbïa, Fábia, Fabià

• a separate given name405 records spelled Fabia5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy

  Also written Fabiá, Fàbia, Fabià, Fábia

• Swahili given name390 records spelled Fabia3 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●

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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

  as a name·DUDEN 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.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Fabia Eudokiab. 580TRByzantine empress, the first empress-consort of Heraclius
• Fabia Drakeb. 1904GBBritish actress (1904-1990)
• Fabia Borronib. 1921ITItalian librarian (1921-1986)
• Fabia Trabaldob. 1972ITItalian middle distance runner
• Fabia Mendozab. 1986DEGerman film director
• Fabia Mantwillb. 1993DEGerman jazz musician (saxophone, vocals, composition)
• Fabia Hublerb. 2001CHSwiss association football player
• Fabia Reinschmidtb. 2003CHSwiss association football player
• Fabia Feekenb. 2005DEGerman association football player
• Fabia RosiITresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 327 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fabia?

We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Fabia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Fabia have the most bearers?

We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Fabia in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, 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.

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 does the name Fabia mean?

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