Fabien

given name · French · Latin script

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

Fabien is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin, from the Roman family name Fabius; from Latin 'fabius' related to beans.

rarermore common
  • GPGuadeloupe1 in 447◐
  • MQMartinique1 in 569
  • LALaos1 in 582

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈384K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
395 ●

649K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 611 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

FabienLatin · French●750K records
ฟาเบียนThai · Thai●54 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fabienne in BR Brazil, US United States, BE Belgium and 5 more and Fabian in EC Ecuador, LA Laos, TH Thailand.

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●

Latin, from the Roman family name Fabius; from Latin 'fabius' related to beans.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Fabien is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—143,856△387 rec.1 in 1.5K159KFabienne69
FR France#63110,980599K rec.1 in 611111KFabien395
US United States—42,691△13K rec.1 in 7.8K43KFabienne233
PL Poland—36,577△3 rec.1 in 1K37K—1
EC Ecuador—20,625△19 rec.1 in 82021KFabian8
BE Belgium#5819,18820K rec.—42Fabienne121
ES Spain—7,7963.9K rec.1 in 6.4K7.8KFabienne65
LA Laos#967,67116 rec.——Fabian9
CR Costa Rica—7,208△22 rec.1 in 7077.2K—6
SE Sweden—6,695△48 rec.1 in 1.5K6.7K—16
CH Switzerland#1135,4113.3K rec.—229Fabienne96
NL Netherlands—2,874△918 rec.1 in 6K2.9KFabienne64

Roughly 144K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French750K97%
  • English7.6K1%
  • German2.5K1%
  • Spanish1.9K1%
  • Portuguese1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French749,84297%
English7,6221%
German2,5211%
Spanish1,8791%
Portuguese1,2601%

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◐

Fabien is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18K records spelled Fabien9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fabiën, Fabièn, Fabién

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Fabien3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Fabiën, Fabie͏̈n

  • Polish given name1.1K records spelled Fabien5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Fabiën, Fãbîën

  • Danish given name542 records spelled Fabien7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Belgium

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Fabiën

  • Italian given name479 records spelled Fabien2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Italy

    Also written Fabiën

  • Russian given name256 records spelled Fabien14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Switzerland, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Fabienne, Фабьен, Фабиен, Фабіен, Фабйен

52 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●

Fabien is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From Latin Fabius, a Roman family name probably linked to faba ‘bean’

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, du nom latin Fabianus, dérivé de faba « fève »

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In French, Dérivé du latin Fabianus, lié à faba « fève »; saint Fabien, pape et martyr, fêté le 20 janvier.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Du latin Fabianus, dérivé de Fabius. Fête: saint Fabien, pape et martyr, le 20 janvier.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Du latin Fabianus, de Fabius; fête de saint Fabien le 20 janvier.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

0204060801920194019601980200080 · 1999

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Fabien in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion), Réunion, 1909–2018
Yearrecords
19095
19165
19205
19235
19375
19385
19445
19525
19645
19655
19665
196710
196810
197015
19715
197210
197310
197410
197515
197615
197715
197815
197915
198010
198115
198225
198320
198425
198540
198640
198750
198850
198960
199060
199150
199265
199345
199445
199555
199650
199755
199855
199980
200070
200135
200250
200350
200425
200520
200625
200715
200820
200910
201010
20115
201210
20135
20145
20155
20165
20185

RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 61 years between 1909–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Alain Delon, b. 1935Fabien Canu, b. 1960Fabien Cousteau, b. 1967Fabien Roussel, b. 1969Fabien Barthez, b. 1971Benjamin Biolay, b. 1973Fabien Gilot, b. 1984Fabien Lemoine, b. 1987Fabien Causeur, b. 1987Fabien Frankel, b. 1994

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●

Attested in 79 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Fabien
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024111K#1,547
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,507
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020597#39,705
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010460#46,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000302#62,046
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991167—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—163#3,906
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—102#7,616
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—98#16,056
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—97#7,531
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202693#2,183
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—89#2,098

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 457 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fabien?
We estimate roughly 384 thousand people bear Fabien (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Fabien have the most bearers?
We estimate about 144 thousand people bear Fabien in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fabienne.
How common is Fabien compared with other names?
In Belgium, Fabien is the 58th most common given name of 58,504 given names recorded there.
Is Fabien a male or female name?
Fabien 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 does the name Fabien mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin, from the Roman family name Fabius; from Latin 'fabius' related to beans.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Fabien” — the 58th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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