Fabela

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Fabela is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
151 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fabela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Fabela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico—229Fabela122
CO Colombia——Fabela11
US United States—3.7K—151
GB United Kingdom—10—2
AR Argentina—2—12

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fabela is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Fäbélä, Faebélae

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Isidro Fabela, b. 1882Antonio Fabela, b. 1977Oscar Jiménez, b. 1988
  • Isidro Fabelab. 1882MXMexican diplomat and governor of the State of Mexico (1882-1964)
  • Antonio Fabelab. 1977MXMexican colorist and cover artist
  • Oscar Jiménezb. 1988MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Fabela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.7K#8,817
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.4K#9,167
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.8K#10,375
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—229#1,107
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200210#143,714
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fabela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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