Fabian
Fabian was given to 655 boys in 2025, #468 among boys’ names; 44,577 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 42,000 Americans named Fabian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fabian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fabian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fabian is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “belonging to Fabius” (Fabiānus).
From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
/ˈfeɪ.bi.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fabian?
#468 among boys’ names, 2025
Fabian fell from #357 in 2015 to #468 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.49 to 0.38 per 1,000.
1,403 babies in 2007, the peak
Fabian peaked in 2007, when 1,403 babies were given it (1,396 boys, #253 among boys’ names). The 655 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 655 | #468 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 714 | #441 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 658 | #465 | 0.38 |
| 2022 | 673 | #457 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 684 | #448 | 0.39 |
| 2020 | 708 | #423 | 0.41 |
| 2019 | 796 | #393 | 0.44 |
| 2018 | 810 | #391 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | 825 | #388 | 0.45 |
| 2016 | 868 | #377 | 0.46 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 943 | #357 | 0.49 |
| 2014 | 1,053 | #325 | 0.55 |
| 2013 | 1,096 | #313 | 0.58 |
| 2012 | 1,162 | #298 | 0.61 |
| 2011 | 1,198 | #291 | 0.63 |
| 2010 | 1,042 | #305 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 1,174 | #283 | 0.59 |
| 2008 | 1,178 | #289 | 0.58 |
| 2007 | 1,396 | #253 | 0.67 |
| 2006 | 1,276 | #271 | 0.62 |
| 2005 | 1,232 | #270 | 0.62 |
| 2004 | 1,224 | #267 | 0.62 |
| 2003 | 1,147 | #272 | 0.58 |
| 2002 | 1,150 | #271 | 0.59 |
| 2001 | 1,111 | #275 | 0.57 |
| 2000 | 1,081 | #284 | 0.55 |
| 1999 | 999 | #289 | 0.52 |
| 1998 | 871 | #317 | 0.46 |
| 1997 | 859 | #310 | 0.46 |
| 1996 | 799 | #329 | 0.42 |
| 1995 | 719 | #339 | 0.38 |
| 1994 | 773 | #326 | 0.40 |
| 1993 | 828 | #320 | 0.42 |
| 1992 | 709 | #339 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 756 | #332 | 0.37 |
| 1990 | 767 | #325 | 0.37 |
| 1989 | 594 | #377 | 0.30 |
| 1988 | 542 | #373 | 0.28 |
| 1987 | 496 | #387 | 0.27 |
| 1986 | 481 | #382 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 459 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 380 | #426 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 362 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 364 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 402 | #411 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 360 | #433 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 365 | #418 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 333 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 321 | #447 | 0.20 |
| 1976 | 261 | #493 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 246 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 233 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 220 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 213 | #545 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 227 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 217 | #552 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 191 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 182 | #563 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 172 | #577 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 177 | #571 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 163 | #596 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 141 | #652 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 133 | #679 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 121 | #698 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 158 | #628 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 186 | #573 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 161 | #609 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,225 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,103 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,288 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,091 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,218 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,386 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,215 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,265 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,274 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,282 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,387 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,308 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,507 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,377 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,382 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,415 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,407 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,402 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,258 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,664 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 38 | #1,150 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,165 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,166 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,185 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,238 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,319 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,347 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,192 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,272 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,140 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 9 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 9 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 5 | #988 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fabian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fabian has been given almost only to boys: 327 girls in 123 years of records.
Girls and boys named Fabian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fabian, and how old are they?
42,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 44,577 Americans ever recorded as Fabian. The median Fabian alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 43,046 people named Fabian (355 women and girls, 42,691 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 38,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 84 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,490 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fabian born?
The states with the most babies named Fabian are California, Texas and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 150 | #250 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 150 | #265 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 56 | #350 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 28 | #379 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 26 | #301 | 2.2× |
| New York | 22 | #668 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 19 | #333 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 16 | #455 | 0.7× |
| New Mexico | 14 | #137 | 3.9× |
| Georgia | 13 | #725 | 0.5× |
Where Fabian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fabian is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fabian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 45,616 babies since 1880, Fabian is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 655 of their 667 babies (98%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fabian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fabian and names like it
- Compare Fabian and FabienBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFabian peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fabian since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Fabian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Fabian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fabian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.