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Fabian vs Fabricio

American parents have registered 44,577 Fabians since 1880, against 1,213 Fabricios. Fabian is still ahead, with 655 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fabian against Fabricio, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fabian Fabricio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Fabian has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Fabian had 1,281 and Fabricio had 85.

Side by side

  Fabian Fabricio
Total US births 44,5771,213
Most in one year 1,40392
Babies in 2025 65520
Estimated living today 42,0001,200
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 253rd boys1,658th boys
Rank in 2025 468th4,857th
First recorded 18821971
Girls / boys 327 / 44,2500 / 1,213

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Fabians alive today are over 21; half the Fabricios are over 18. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Fabian Fabricio
France 4,360190
England and Wales 3,13019

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Fabian and Fabricio.