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fabian Name Meaning and History

  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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fabian Families in the US in 1920
Number of fabian families
 66-130
 23-65		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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