Entry № 3198 · English origin

Fable Fable — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"A story, a tale"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a story, a tale".

Fable is a name of English origin, the word name for a story, a tale.

A story, a tale — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Fable
Transliteration
Fable
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Fable stands.

Fable 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.

Fables before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Fable.

The number behind Fable.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fable reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.