Fabrício
Meaning
traditionally from Latin faber, 'craftsman' (Portuguese form of the Roman Fabricius)
The story
Fabrício descends from Fabricius, the family name of Rome's proverbial honest man. Gaius Fabricius Luscinus so impressed the invading King Pyrrhus by refusing his bribes that the king released Roman prisoners without ransom; Cicero returned to him again and again as the standard of incorruptibility, and the general died so poor the state paid for his burial. The traditional etymology reads faber, craftsman, though some references hedge. Brazil adopted the name at scale: the 2022 census counted 165,799 people named Fabrício, the country's 198th most common first name, with a median age of 28; the 1970s brought 17,914 and the 1980s 46,251, more than doubling in a decade. The American record lists it only rarely. Rome carved its honest men in marble; in Brazil this one landed in the birth registers instead.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Fabrício has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Popularity in Brazil
165,799 people · the #198 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,225 · median age 28
Among people named Fabrício living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 2,439 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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