Faviola
Feminine · “from a Roman family name”
The name climbs in American records from the mid nineteen-sixties, which is a few years after a Spanish noblewoman carrying it married the king of the Belgians in a wedding covered across the Spanish-speaking world. The timing is close enough to be worth stating and loose enough that it should be stated carefully.
How old is the name Faviola?
Faviola first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Faviola alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 2,000 people named Faviola are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Faviola most popular?
Faviola peaked in 1991, reaching #1628 nationally. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Fabius to Faviola
The story of Faviola
The saint the name belongs to did something genuinely new. A Roman noblewoman of the fourth century, twice married and once divorced in a way the church disapproved of, she gave away an enormous fortune and used part of it to found what appears to be the first public hospital in the West — a place where the sick poor were brought in off the streets and nursed, rather than a military infirmary or a household arrangement. Contemporaries wrote about it as an astonishing thing to do. The institution she invented is now so ordinary that the invention is invisible.
Meaningscholars disagree
from a Roman family name
The gens name behind it is generally derived from the Latin for a bean, in the same way several other Roman family names come from crops. The derivation is standard but not certain, and the name arrives here at several removes in any case.
How the name formed
- Fabius
- Fabiola
- Faviola
Related forms: Fabiola · Fabiola
Pronouncing Faviola
fah-vee-OH-lah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Spanish gives the v a soft value close to a b, which is why the two spellings of this name coexist.
Nicknames for Faviola
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 199192 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1628reached in 1991
- Change vs 2022
- −37.5%5 in 2023, from 8
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.
Faviola in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Fabiola in Spanish — spelling variant
- Fabiola in Italian — spelling variant
Faviolas among us
people named Faviola are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Faviola sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Viola and Fabi both sit inside it as complete short forms.
- The rhythm is long and even and carries well.
- It has a genuinely remarkable historical bearer behind it.
- Fabiola is the standard spelling and this one gets corrected.
- Four syllables is long and most people will shorten it.
- The stress falls where English speakers do not expect it.
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- How many Faviolas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Faviola are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Faviola in 2025?
- Faviola is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Faviola will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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