Fabian

At the 2020 census, 13,044 Americans bore the surname Fabian — 2,699th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,900.

By the numbers

People: 13,044
Rank: 2,699th
How common: 1 in 22,900
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fabian described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 47.4%
White, not Hispanic 44.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Fabian

Lara Fabian (born 1970)Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter
Marco Fabián (born 1989)Mexican association football player
Françoise Fabian (born 1933)French actress
Patrick Fabian (born 1964)American actor
John M. Fabian (1939–2026)American pilot and astronaut
László Fábián (1936–2018)Hungarian canoeist
Fabian (born 1943)American singer and actor
Dezső Fábián (1918–1973)Hungarian water polo player

People named Fabian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fabian

Also a first name

Fabian has been given to 44,577 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.