Fabiola

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 14 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◐

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

• French given name30K records spelled Fabiola9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Fabíola, Fàbīölå, Fäbiolä, Fabìola, Fäbïölä

• a separate given name12K records spelled Fabiola2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Fabíola

• Albanian given name3.1K records spelled Fabiola2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, Spain

  Also written Fabìòla

• Lao given name2.9K records spelled Fabiola9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States, Peru

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Fäbïölä, Fabíola, ฟาบิโอล่า, Fäbîölä, Fábíólá

• Indonesian given name2.5K records spelled Fabiola2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Spain

  Also written Fabíola

• Polish given name2.3K records spelled Fabiola16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Croatia, Spain

  Languages: Polish, Croatian, Bulgarian

  Also written Фабиола, Fabíola, Fabìola

• Russian given name633 records spelled Fabiola8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Russia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Фабиола, Фабіола, Fabíola

58 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●

Fabiola 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.

• Late Latin feminine diminutive form of the old Roman family name Fabius (see Fabia). St Fabiola (d. c.400) was aRoman widow who founded the first Western hospital, originally a hostel to accommodate the flood of pilgrims who flocked to Rome, in which she tended the sick as well as accommodating the healthy.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Italian, Diminutivo femminile di Fabio; attestato alla fine del I secolo.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Spanish, Latin Fabiola; feminine diminutive of Fabio.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In English, queen, Belgium

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In French, Forme espagnole de Fabienne; du latin, « issue des Fabius » (famille romaine).

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 117 years between 1892–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Saint Fabiolab. 400ITsaint
• Fabiola of Belgiumb. 1928ESqueen consort of Belgium (1928-2014)
• Fabiola Gianottib. 1960ITItalian particle physicist and CERN Director-General
• Fabiola Ramosb. 1977VEVenezuelan female table tennis player
• Fabiola Zuluagab. 1979COColombian tennis player
• Fabiola Guajardob. 1988MXMexican actress and model
• Fabiola Beracasa-Beckmanb. 2000VEfilm/TV producer and philanthropist
• Inde Navarretteb. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 2001)
• Princess Éléonore of Belgiumb. 2008BEnot in their usual nameyoungest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
• Fabiola SicilyIDactress

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 · 850 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fabiola?

We estimate roughly 102 thousand people bear Fabiola (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Fabiola have the most bearers?

Fabiola is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled fabiola.

How common is Fabiola compared with other names?

In Mexico, Fabiola is the 151st most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Fabiola a male or female name?

Fabiola 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 Fabiola mean?

Recorded meaning: Feminine diminutive of Fabius, a Roman family name linked to faba ‘bean’