Fabian

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: German

Meaning

Fabian is the English form of the late Roman name Fabianus. This was a name originally given to those adopted into or descended through the female line from a Roman family named Fabius, that derived from the Latin faba for the broad bean, an important food crop in antiquity.

From Wikipedia

Fabian first appears in the data in 1958 and has been recorded in 56 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2012 with 177 babies (rank #88 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Fabian

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Fabian yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

5,271
Total babies (all years)
56
Years in the data
177
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19582#782
19602#823
19613#774
19623#782
19635#669
19645#684
19654#747
19666#676
19676#683
196816#473
196923#407
197031#360
197152#281
197268#227
197356#247
197449#266
197554#247
1976119#148
197778#198
1978104#162
197994#175
198080#209
198187#190
1982100#172
198359#244
198485#185
1985101#162
1986122#145
1987102#174
1988118#157
1989127#147
1990147#140
1991129#157
1992128#157
1993122#164
1994136#155
1995146#138
1996141#138
1997132#149
1998153#138
1999150#138
2000121#174
2001119#173
2002144#145
2003119#165
2004159#119
2005131#138
2006153#114
2007145#119
2008122#134
2009138#122
2010157#106
2011165#95
2012177#88
2013139#109
2014137#111