Fabiola

Where Fabiola comes from

Fabiola hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,450 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1928
    Fabiola of Belgium born
    queen consort of Belgium
  3. 1960
    Fabiola Gianotti born
    Italian particle physicist and CERN Director-General
  4. 1995
    Peak, #662
    322 babies named Fabiola — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,556.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Fabiola of Belgium · queen consort of Belgium, 1928–2014
  • Fabiola Gianotti · Italian particle physicist and CERN Director-General, born 1960
  • Fabiola Zuluaga · Colombian tennis player, born 1979
  • Fabiola Guajardo · Mexican actress and model, born 1988
  • Fabiola Ramos · Venezuelan female table tennis player, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.