Fabrice
Barely 77 men across Poland carry it, rare enough that most people here will never meet one. A French name at root, from the Latin for "craftsman".
Fabrice Pronunciation
Fabrice is pronounced fahb-REE-tse (/fabˈrit͡sɛ/).
What Fabrice means
Where Fabrice comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fabrice comes from Latin. Behind it stands the Roman family name Fabricius, which grew from the noun faber, a worker in metal and stone, a smith. The sense that reaches Polish parents is plain: craftsman, rzemieślnik.
French speakers took the old Roman surname and made it a given name, one a child could answer to. Stendhal handed it to his hero Fabrice del Dongo in "La Chartreuse de Parme," published in 1839, and the young nobleman fixed the name in French letters. The Latin root stayed put under the French sound.
Picture a class register in a Polish school, Fabrice set among the Jakubs and Mikołajs, its spelling asking the teacher to slow down. The name has no diminutive to hide behind here. It arrives whole. What it means points back to the workshop: faber, the maker, the craftsman.
How many people are named Fabrice
1 in 277223 men in Poland is named Fabrice. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4057 among male names.
Fabrice's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Fabrice as a middle name
Fabrice is a first name for 77 men in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1712th, between Eliyahu (25) and Gene (25).
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#1710 Dustin25
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#1711 Eliyahu25
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#1712 Fabrice25
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#1713 Gene25
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#1714 Hüseyi̇n25