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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Bean

First name variations: Fabius, Fab, Fabyan, Fabia, Fabya, Fabiana, Fabiano, Fabain, Fabayan, Fabean, Fabien, Fabion

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English, French, German, Italian (Venetian), Polish, Czech and Slovak (Fabián), and Hungarian (Fábián): from a personal name, Latin Fabianus, a derivative of the Roman family name Fabius. The personal name achieved considerable popularity in Europe in the Middle Ages, having been borne by a 3rd-century pope and saint.
  2. Americanized or Italianized spelling of Slovenian Fabjan or Fabijan (see 1).
  3. Jewish: adoption of the non-Jewish surname under the influence of the Yiddish personal name Fayvish.

This name appears in the following lists: Names from Shakespeare, Saints