Fábio
Only about 73 men in Poland carry Fábio, and no boys have been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one. A Latin name at root, from Fabius, "bean grower".
Fábio Pronunciation
Fábio is pronounced FÁBYO (/fábjɔ/).
What Fábio means
Where Fábio comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Fábio grows from Latin, from the Roman family name Fabius. That name was built on faba, the ordinary bean. The short meaning stays close to the soil: bean, and the one who grows the bean.
The gens Fabia was a real Roman clan. Its most famous member, Quintus Fabius Maximus, earned the nickname Cunctator, the Delayer, for wearing down Hannibal without open battle. The bean sat inside the family name long before any of those campaigns. Fábio is the Portuguese and later form of that old Roman line.
In a Polish class register, Fábio stands out among the Piotrs and Jakubs. The accent marks a Portuguese route home. The origin holds firm. Under the accent sits faba, the bean, and the grower who tended it.
How many people are named Fábio
1 in 292414 men in Poland is named Fábio. 73 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4197 among male names.
Fábio as a middle name
Fábio is a first name for 73 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6264th, between Frédérick (3) and Gaffar (3).
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