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Fabienne vs Fabio

American parents have registered 2,897 Fabios since 1880, against 489 Fabiennes. Fabio is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fabienne against Fabio, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fabienne Fabio

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

Of the 77 years in which either name was published, Fabio for 72 years and Fabienne for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Fabienne Fabio
Total US births 4892,897
Most in one year 3698
Babies in 2025 under 550
Estimated living today 4602,800
Median age today 3923
Peak year 19502006
Best rank 1,550th girls1,526th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,604th
First recorded 19491915
Girls / boys 489 / 00 / 2,897

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 Fabiennes alive today are over 39; half the Fabios are over 23. That is 16 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 Fabienne Fabio
France 105,2758,810
Switzerland 1,8374,408
England and Wales 127786
Belgium 19841
Poland 14221

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: Fabienne and Fabio.