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Fabiana vs Fabio

American parents have registered 2,897 Fabios since 1880, against 1,853 Fabianas. But in 2025 it was Fabiana that was commoner, 54 babies to 50.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fabiana against Fabio, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fabiana Fabio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Fabio for 63 years and Fabiana for 11 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Fabiana Fabio
Total US births 1,8532,897
Most in one year 6798
Babies in 2025 5450
Estimated living today 1,8002,800
Median age today 1723
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 2,710th girls1,526th boys
Rank in 2025 3,028th2,604th
First recorded 19651915
Girls / boys 1,853 / 00 / 2,897

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Fabios alive today are over 23; half the Fabianas are over 17. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Fabiana Fabio
Italy 8,42926,653
France 1658,810
England and Wales 87786
Belgium 5841
Poland 30221

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Fabiana and Fabio.