Given name & surname
Fabrice
Fabrice is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who works with his hands Fabriauas, Fabigces faborice elalrazio.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who works with his hands Fabriauas, Fabigces faborice elalrazio.” Its derivation is not certain.
Where it comes from
A possible origin is French, although the derivation remains uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fabrice through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 482
- 482 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,463 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,463 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 32 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,426 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fabrice’s family of names
Fabrice has a short form in Brizio. Fabrice shares a linguistic root with Fabricio. In French usage, Fabrice has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Fabrizio.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Fabrice has relatives in 22 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
16 related names in 22 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fabrice
- Fabrice MuambaCongolese association football player (born 1988)
- Hugues Fabrice Zangoburkinabe athlete and doctor of electrical engineeringborn 1993
- Fabrice OndoaCameroonian footballerborn 1995
- Fabrice SantoroFrench tennis playerborn 1972
- Fabrice OlingaCameroonian association football playerborn 1996
- AkwáAngolan footballerborn 1977
- Fabrice JeannetFrench épée fencerborn 1980
- Fabrice NsakalaDR Congolese and French footballerborn 1990
- Fabrice GuyFrench former Nordic combined skierborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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