Fabia

Girls' name

Bean, through Fabius

Fabia has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1931. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Fabia, 1982

1 in 585,000

Fabia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fabia: meaning, origin, and history

Bean, through Fabius

Latin

What Fabia means

Fabia belongs to the name family reached through Fabia → Fabius. Its meaning is “bean”.

Origin, language, and formation

Fabia is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fabius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Fabia between 1931 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1982; its best national rank was #4,558 in 1931.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fabia?

Fabia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982: 1 in 585,000; 6 of 3,507,638 births
Among girls only: 1 in 282,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1982: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 405,219 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Fabia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 405,219 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fabia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fabias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fabia was born before 1960 — so the typical Fabia is around 65 today.

Median birth year: 1960; About 65 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 16; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Fabia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1982 (6)
Years since peak: 43; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,558; 1931

Spellings of Fabia

Fabia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 49.1% against Fabia's <0.01%.

Maria49.1%566,111
Aria8.3%95,674
Nadia4.0%46,556
Fatima3.4%38,945
Talia3.0%34,154
Asia2.8%32,491
Malia2.7%31,606
Tania2.5%28,891

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Fabia around the world

Where Fabia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2015
#5,730
in 2015
South Australia
1981–2002
#730
in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fabia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,558; 1931
Peak year: 1982; 6 that year
First recorded: 1931
Last recorded: 1982
All-time count: 21
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Fabia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Faby Fabeha Nobia Fabiha Robia Fable Zobia Nabia Yubia Rebia Sabia Rubia Sobia Elbia Libia Albia Cubia Silbia Fabiene Lesbia Jacobia Akebia Phebia Llubia

Sibling names for Fabia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Eboni Lyndsay Shamika Afton Tanesha Christopher Kandi Matthew

For a brother

Jamaal Donnell Jerrod Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Marques

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