In 2025, 53 US girls were named Fabiola, making it the 3,079th most common girls’ name of the year, up 55 places from #3,134 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 51 girls named Fabiola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #663, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 322. For comparison, it was #1,974 in 2015 and #4,443 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fabiola in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 9,429 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,879 babies named Fabiola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 696 US girls were named Fabiola; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Fabia are summarised on this page.
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