The Fabre surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,257 people carried this name — #12,590 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 119,000 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 18,664 people named Fabre.
462 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 104 départements, most often Aveyron.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
163 people named Fabre live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 77 people named Fabre live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Fabre in American newspapers,
1893–1945.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 24,426 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Fabre,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre Jean Fabre 1588–1658 · physician
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Jean-Baptiste Fabre 1727–1783 · Catholic priest -
Jean-Pierre Fabre de l'Aude 1755–1832 · lawyer -
François-Xavier Fabre 1766–1837 · painter -
Augustin Fabre 1792–1839 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 168 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fabre.
- Fabiani 500 · U.S. census
- Fabiano 1,949 · U.S. census
- Fabie 144 · U.S. census
- Fabien 302 · U.S. census
- Fabin 220 · U.S. census
- Fabing 155 · U.S. census
- Fabrega 148 · U.S. census
- Fabregas 378 · U.S. census
- Fabri 272 · U.S. census
- Fabris 470 · U.S. census
- Fabrizi 545 · U.S. census
- Fabrizio 2,900 · U.S. census
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