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Fabiola

#3,079 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Fabia

Fabiola has been given to 9,429 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #3,079 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 322 recorded.

Babies named Fabiola, 2025

1 in 62,600

Fabiola over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fabiola: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Fabia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fabiola means

Fabiola is a diminutive of Fabia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fabiola → Fabia → Fabius. The family’s meaning is “bean”, recorded in English with the source elements faba.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fabia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,376 girls were recorded with the name Fabiola between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 322 in 1995; its best national rank was #663 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,987 in 2020 to #3,079 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,974 in 2015 to #3,079 in 2025.

In the United States, 53 boys were recorded with the name Fabiola between 1985 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1993; its best national rank was #5,472 in 1993.

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 Fabiola?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,079
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fabiola 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 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fabiola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fabiolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fabiola was born before 1997 — so the typical Fabiola is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,005
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1990s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (2,836).

Is Fabiola 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
+55
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−92
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,105
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.5%
Peak was 1995 (322)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#663
1995

Spellings of Fabiola

Fabiola is the most-used spelling, taking 67.0% of the 13,987 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Fabiola is used

Across 1910–2025, Fabiola was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 13,579 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,545
  2. 2Texas1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 8,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 10,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 11,111
  6. 6Illinois1 in 14,286
  7. 7Nevada1 in 20,000
  8. 8New York1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Fabiola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fabiola around the world

Where Fabiola 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
    2000–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1926–2025
    #1,312
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1962–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Fabiola

People whose public names include Fabiola, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fabiola in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Fabiola. Linked forms have their own page here.

FabiaFábia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Fabiola by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,079
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 92
Best rank ever
#663
1995
Peak year
1995
322 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,376
Count in 2025
53

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,472
1993
Peak year
1993
10 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fabiola

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

FabianaNicolaZolaIolaPaolaLeolaEnolaFaviolaCarolaNolaNikolaTheolaNicholaFableCreolaFabienneFabihaAdeolaTeniolaEniolaMayolaCleolaFabianOla

Names with a curve like Fabiola

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fabiola, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CarliChristianaKasandraErynGabrielShakiraKarlyKarliYesseniaSarinaFlorVanesa

Sibling names for Fabiola

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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