Fabricio
Masculine · “craftsman”
Fabricio comes from a Roman family name built on the word for a craftsman: faber, the man who works metal or wood or stone. It belonged to a republican general famous for refusing a bribe, and Spanish and Portuguese have kept the name in ordinary use ever since.
How old is the name Fabricio?
Fabricio first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Fabricio alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,200 people named Fabricio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fabricio most popular?
Fabricio peaked in 2007, reaching #1658 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 3,199 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
Where it comes from
From faber to Fabricio
The story of Fabricio
Roman family names often recorded a trade several generations back, and the Fabricii were one of the older plebeian houses; one of them commanded against Pyrrhus and became a byword in Roman moral writing for incorruptibility, which is why the name kept turning up in later literature. Italian took it as Fabrizio and Spanish and Portuguese as Fabricio, and it spread through Latin America, where it became particularly common in Brazil, Uruguay and Ecuador in the late twentieth century.
Meaning
craftsman; worker in hard materials
Latin Fabricius, a Roman family name from faber, a smith or craftsman. The same root gives the English words fabricate and forge, and the Italian fabbro, a blacksmith.
How the name formed
- faber
- Fabricius
- Fabricio
Related forms: Fabrizio · Fabrício · Fabrice · Fabricius
Pronouncing Fabricio
fah-BREE-see-oh
Four syllables, stress on the second. Italian says fah-BREET-tsyo for its own spelling; English speakers usually manage the Spanish shape after one hearing.
Nicknames for Fabricio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 200792 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1658reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −23.1%20 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Fabricio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Fabrizio in Italian — same name
- Fabrício in Portuguese — same name
- Fabrice in French — same name
- Fabricius in Latin — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Fabricios among us
people named Fabricio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Fabricio
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Fabricio
- #4857
- Fabricio on the 2025 chart
- #884
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Fabricio went to 20 boys in 2025, but Fabrizio is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 44, which makes it the 884th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,973 places above the chart.
- Fabrizio24
- Fabricio20
About 1 boy in 38,820 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 85,404 for Fabricio itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Waleed test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fabricio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Waleed climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Waleed's path sketches the road Fabricio is walking now.
Fabricio sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Fabricio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fabricio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a trade, concrete and easy to state in two words.
- Fabri and Fabi are ready short forms and both are easy in English.
- It works in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French households with small changes only.
- Four syllables is long for American forms and gets clipped without being asked.
- Fabricio and Fabrizio are both standard in different languages, so family records may differ.
- English readers see the word fabric inside it, which is etymologically related but not the meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Fabricios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Fabricio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Fabricio?
- Fabricio is one of 2 recorded spellings. Fabrizio is the more common one — 24 births in 2025 against 20 for Fabricio.
- How popular is the name Fabricio in 2025?
- Fabricio ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fabricio?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Fabricio — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fabricio with classmates?
- Fabricio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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