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Fabien

#6,917 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Fabianus

Fabien has been given to 706 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #6,917 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Fabien, 2025

1 in 276,000

Fabien over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fabien: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Fabianus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fabien means

Fabien is a form of Fabianus.

Origin, language, and formation

Fabien is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fabianus and Fabian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Fabien is pronounced /fa.bjɛ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 706 boys were recorded with the name Fabien between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,150 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,031 in 2020 to #6,917 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,655 in 2015 to #6,917 in 2025.

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 Fabien?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,917
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fabien sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fabien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fabiens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fabien was born before 2004 — so the typical Fabien is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
706
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Choose a decade

2000s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (245).

Is Fabien 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
+490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,114
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+738
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.5%
Peak was 2008 (32)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,150
1984

Spellings of Fabien

Fabien is not the most common spelling — Damien is, with 47.0% against Fabien's 0.51%.

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.

Where Fabien is used

Across 1910–2025, Fabien was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 414,813 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fabien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fabien around the world

Where Fabien 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #500
    in 2003
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,312
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fabien by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,917
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,114
Best rank ever
#3,150
1984
Peak year
2008
32 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
706
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Fabien

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

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Sibling names for Fabien

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

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