Baby name
FADING
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 Fabien
/fah · BYEH/
Meaning
“Bean grower”
French masculine form of Fabian, from the Roman gens Fabia meaning bean-grower; the French form softens the Latin original into something characteristically Gallic.
Nicknames
fabi
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Feels cleanly French; ages steadily within Francophone countries without dramatic peaks or troughs.
The cultural moment.
Moderately popular in France and Belgium through the 1970s-90s; declining but not rare.