Entry № 3204 · French origin

Fabienne Fabienne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fah-bee-EN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Bean grower (Pulp Fiction's Fabienne; French feminine of Fabian)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "bean grower (pulp fiction's fabienne; french feminine of fabian)".

Fabienne is the French feminine of Fabian — from the Latin Fabius (bean grower) — the Roman gens Fabia clan name. Fabienne in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) — Bruce Willis's character Butch's girlfriend; played by María de Medeiros; Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino + Roger Avary); the film was voted #94 on AFI's 100 Greatest American Films and changed independent American cinema forever; Fabienne's iconic motorcycle/Honda Chopper scene became one of the most-recognized moments in the film. Princess Fabienne — modern French naming. Fabienne Cherisma — Haitian earthquake-tragedy figure (2010). Fabienne Babe (born 1962) — French actress. Fabienne Lévy — Swiss-French gallery owner.

Bean grower (Latin Roman gens).

The name in its native script.

Fabienne
Transliteration
Fabienne
Pronunciation
/ fɑːbiˈɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fabienne stands.

Fabienne does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fabiennes before her.

Real people
Fabienne Verdier
French painter (Louvre + Pompidou).
born 1962
Fabienne Babe
French actress.
born 1962
In fiction
Fabienne
Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
1994

Names connected to Fabienne.

The number behind Fabienne.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fabienne reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.