Given name & surname
Fabia
“one who grows beans”
In Latin use, Fabia carries the interpretation “one who grows beans.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Latin use, Fabia carries the interpretation “one who grows beans.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
Fabia is used as a feminine counterpart of Fabius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fabia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 0 boys · 21 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1982. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 480 as a first name in 2020; 274 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fabia’s family of names
Fabia is a feminine form of Fabius. In Italian usage, Fabia has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Fabiola. Fabia has a related form in Fabiola.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 19
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Fabia
- Fabia EudokiaByzantine empress, the first empress-consort of Heraclius580–612
- Fabia DrakeBritish actress (1904-1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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