Fabienne
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fabienne 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 German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine of Fabien, from Latin Fabius, probably linked to faba ‘bean’.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 395 ●
- 1 in 611 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
649K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fabien in FR France, AR Argentina, CA Canada and 3 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●
Feminine of Fabien, from Latin Fabius, probably linked to faba ‘bean’
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 143,856△ | 387 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 159K | Fabienne | 69 |
| FR France | #63 | 110,980 | 599K rec. | 1 in 611 | 111K | Fabien | 395 |
| US United States | — | 42,691△ | 13K rec. | 1 in 7.8K | 43K | Fabienne | 233 |
| PL Poland | — | 36,577△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 1K | 37K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 20,625△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 820 | 21K | Fabian | 8 |
| BE Belgium | #58 | 19,188 | 20K rec. | — | 42 | Fabienne | 121 |
| ES Spain | — | 7,796 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 6.4K | 7.8K | Fabienne | 65 |
| LA Laos | #96 | 7,671 | 16 rec. | — | — | Fabian | 9 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 7,208△ | 22 rec. | 1 in 707 | 7.2K | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6,695△ | 48 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 6.7K | — | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | #113 | 5,411 | 3.3K rec. | — | 229 | Fabienne | 96 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,874△ | 918 rec. | 1 in 6K | 2.9K | Fabienne | 64 |
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●
- French674K92%
- German22K3%
- English14K2%
- Western Frisian5.1K1%
- Dutch5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 674,074 | 92% |
| German | 22,499 | 3% |
| English | 13,554 | 2% |
| Western Frisian | 5,070 | 1% |
| Dutch | 5,012 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fabienne is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Féminin de Fabien, du latin Fabianus, lié à faba « fève »; fête de saint Fabien le 20 janvier.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme féminine de Fabien; latin, « issue des Fabius ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Féminin de Fabien/Fabian, du latin Fabianus; fête de sainte Fabienne.
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 36 |
| 1951 | 17 |
| 1952 | 6 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 16 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 18 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 20 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2010 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1949–2010. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Fabienne Dalib. 1941BEBelgian actress
- Catherine Deneuveb. 1943FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (born 1943)
- Fabienne Vonierb. 1947FRFrench film producer (1947–2013)
- Fabienne Chaudatb. 1959FRFrench actress
- Fabienne Godetb. 1964FRFrench screenwriter
- Amélie Nothombb. 1967BEnot in their usual nameBelgian Francophone writer (born 1966)
- Axelle Redb. 1968BEnot in their usual nameBelgian singer-songwriter
- Stefanie Heinzmannb. 1989CHnot in their usual nameSwiss singer
- Minerva Haseb. 1999DEnot in their usual nameGerman figure skater
- Fabienne RawleyUSfilm editor
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 63 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2008 | 105K | #2,510 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.2K | #775 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 1.8K | #606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,454 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 179 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 176 | #27,483 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 118 | #7,613 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 110 | #14,693 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 109 | #34,792 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 107 | #6,626 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 104 | #5,246 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 83 | #1,726 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 386 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fabienne?
- We estimate roughly 384 thousand people bear Fabienne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fabienne have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 144 thousand people bear Fabienne in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fabienne.
- How common is Fabienne compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Fabienne is the 58th most common given name of 58,504 given names recorded there.
- Is Fabienne a male or female name?
- Fabienne 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 Fabienne mean?
- Recorded meaning: Feminine of Fabien, from Latin Fabius, probably linked to faba ‘bean’
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About this data
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, “Fabienne” — the 58th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.