Fabio

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Fábio in AO Angola.

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 18 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◐

Fabio is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Italian given name128K records spelled Fabio16 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Fàbio, Fabìo, Fábio, Fäbio, Fäbïö

• French given name79K records spelled Fabio13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Fábio, Fàbio, Fabìo, Fabïo, Fabío

• a separate given name9.8K records spelled Fabio5 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Fábio, Fabió, Fàbio, Fãbio

• Albanian given name4.3K records spelled Fabio9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

  Also written Fábíó, Fábio, Fãbīő, Fãbîõ, Fabīo

• Croatian given name3.5K records spelled Fabio15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Фабио, Fábio, Fabìo

62 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●

Fabio 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.

• From Latin Fabius, name of a Roman family whose members were prominent in republican Rome.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• From the Roman family name Fabius. Feminine form: Fabia.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Italian, dal latino Fabius, nome gentilizio forse da faba 'fava'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Nome di una delle più antiche genti romane; forse legato alla coltivazione delle fave.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Xomi di una delle pii1 siitiche genti romane. 5 ~ . condo gli etimologisti romani, dalla coltivazione d<.lle fave; m a C'& luogo a dubbio. S. Fabio, martire. 17 maggio. Cogn. Vabi, Fabietti. Favi, forsc il friulano Faretti. DimiuuLivo feniminile Fabiola (fine secolo I-). 2 i diceinbre.

  as a name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 109 years between 1912–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Alexander VIIb. 1599ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
• Fabio Testib. 1941ITItalian actor
• Fabio Capellob. 1946ITItalian association football manager
• Fabio Cianchettib. 1952ITItalian director and cinematographer
• Fabio Lanzonib. 1959ITItalian model, author and actor (born 1959)
• Fabio Luisib. 1959ITItalian conductor
• Fabio Cannavarob. 1973ITItalian association football player and manager
• Fabio Pecchiab. 1973ITItalian association football player and manager
• Fabio Quagliarellab. 1983ITItalian association football player (born 1983)
• Fábio Coentrãob. 1988PTPortuguese footballer

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 · 897 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fabio?

We estimate roughly 533 thousand people bear Fabio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Fabio have the most bearers?

We estimate about 500 thousand people bear Fabio in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fabio.

How common is Fabio compared with other names?

In Brazil, Fabio is the 34th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Fabio a male or female name?

Fabio 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 Fabio mean?

Recorded meaning: Latin Fabius; Roman gens name, probably from faba, “bean”.