Fabian
About 44,577 American babies have been named Fabian since 1882, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 468th. About 42,000 Fabians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fabian boys named Fabian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 44,577
- Estimated living today
- 42,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 253rd
- Rank in 2025
- 468th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 327 / 44,250
How old the living Fabians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 44,577 babies given the name since 1882, about 42,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fabians
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852)Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer
- Fabián Ruiz (born 1996)Spanish footballer
- Fabian Schär (born 1991)Swiss association football player
- Fabian Delph (born 1989)English association football player
- Fabian Cancellara (born 1981)Swiss cyclist
- Fabián Balbuena (born 1991)Paraguayan association football player
- Fabian Johnson (born 1987)American soccer player
- Fabián Orellana (born 1986)Chilean footballer
People named Fabian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fabian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fabian is most concentrated in New Mexico (5.5×), Arizona (3.9×), Nevada (3.7×), Texas (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Fabian peaked:
Fabian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Fabian | 31,258 birth registrations | 33rd |
| Austria boys | Fabian | 21,041 | 6th |
| France boys | Fabian | 4,360 | 240th |
| Switzerland boys | Fabian +1 spelling | 3,854 | 10th |
| England and Wales boys | Fabian | 3,130 | 274th |
| Sweden boys | Fabian | 2,483 | 61st |
| Italy boys | Fabian | 1,490 | — |
| Norway boys | Fabian | 1,362 | 109th |
| Belgium boys | Fabian | 965 | 187th |
| Ireland boys | Fabian | 364 | 214th |
| Scotland boys | Fabian | 129 | 234th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Fabian | 65 | 188th |
| Poland girls | Fabian | 2 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Fabian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Fabian | 3,686 | 0.296% | 7th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Fabián | 6 | 0.000% | 1,131st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Fabian | 92 | 0.021% | 174th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Fabián | 4 | 0.001% | 704th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Fabian | 54 | 0.083% | 64th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Fabian | 12 | 0.323% | 7th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Fabian is most concentrated in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where 0.69% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Fabian: rank by region
In 2025, Fabian was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Fabian | 498 | 11 |
| Brussels | Fabian | 114 | 10 |
In 2012, Fabian was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Fabian | 5 | 48 |
In 2025, Fabian was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Fabian | 58 | 36 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Fabian | 46 | 28 |
| Lubelskie | Fabian | 41 | 29 |
| Lubuskie | Fabian | 42 | 16 |
| Łódzkie | Fabian | 43 | 40 |
| Małopolskie | Fabian | 48 | 62 |
| Mazowieckie | Fabian | 59 | 67 |
| Opolskie | Fabian | 53 | 11 |
| Podkarpackie | Fabian | 35 | 49 |
| Podlaskie | Fabian | 73 | 7 |
| Pomorskie | Fabian | 62 | 32 |
| Śląskie | Fabian | 52 | 54 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Fabian | 30 | 23 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Fabian | 41 | 23 |
| Wielkopolskie | Fabian | 49 | 57 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Fabian | 38 | 30 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Fabian appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (114th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Fabian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 305 | 68th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Fabian among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Fabian | 5,353 | 7,341 |
| Finland boys | Fabian +1 spelling | 133 | 605 |
| the Netherlands girls | Fabian | 7 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Fabian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,796 men called Fabian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Fabian | 583 | 1.094 | 136 |
| Pontevedra | Fabian | 376 | 0.822 | 167 |
| Coruña, A | Fabian | 400 | 0.734 | 163 |
| Salamanca | Fabian | 108 | 0.679 | 177 |
| Badajoz | Fabian | 183 | 0.558 | 200 |
| Cádiz | Fabian | 298 | 0.480 | 189 |
Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Fabian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.